Caspase activation and inhibition

DR Green - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Executioner caspases, when activated, cleave hundreds or thousands of substrates in the
cell to orchestrate apoptosis. In most animals, the executioner caspases have short …

Mammalian caspases: structure, activation, substrates, and functions during apoptosis

WC Earnshaw, LM Martins… - Annual review of …, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Apoptosis is a genetically programmed, morphologically distinct form of cell death
that can be triggered by a variety of physiological and pathological stimuli. Studies …

A novel anti-apoptosis gene, survivin, expressed in cancer and lymphoma

G Ambrosini, C Adida, DC Altieri - Nature medicine, 1997 - nature.com
Inhibitors of programmed cell death (apoptosis) aberrantly prolonging cell viability may
contribute to cancer1 by facilitating the insurgence of mutations and by promoting resistance …

The Hippo signaling pathway coordinately regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis by inactivating Yorkie, the Drosophila Homolog of YAP

J Huang, S Wu, J Barrera, K Matthews, D Pan - Cell, 2005 - cell.com
Coordination between cell proliferation and cell death is essential to maintain homeostasis
in multicellular organisms. In Drosophila, these two processes are regulated by a pathway …

IAP family proteins—suppressors of apoptosis

QL Deveraux, JC Reed - Genes & development, 1999 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Apoptosis is a physiological cell suicide program that is critical for the development and
maintenance of healthy tissues. Dysregulation of cell death pathways occur in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of DIABLO, a mammalian protein that promotes apoptosis by binding to and antagonizing IAP proteins

AM Verhagen, PG Ekert, M Pakusch, J Silke… - cell, 2000 - cell.com
To identify proteins that bind mammalian IAP homolog A (MIHA, also known as XIAP), we
used coimmunoprecipitation and 2D immobilized pH gradient/SDS PAGE, followed by …

[HTML][HTML] X-linked IAP is a direct inhibitor of cell-death proteases

QL Deveraux, R Takahashi, GS Salvesen, JC Reed - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
The inhibitor-of-apoptosis (IAP) family of genes has an evolutionarily conserved role in
regulating programmed cell death in animals ranging from insects to humans,,,,,. Ectopic …

IAP proteins: blocking the road to death's door

GS Salvesen, CS Duckett - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2002 - nature.com
The'inhibitor of apoptosis'(IAP) gene family, which was discovered less than a decade ago,
encodes a group of structurally related proteins that, in addition to their ability to suppress …

[HTML][HTML] hippo encodes a Ste-20 family protein kinase that restricts cell proliferation and promotes apoptosis in conjunction with salvador and warts

S Wu, J Huang, J Dong, D Pan - Cell, 2003 - cell.com
The coordination between cell proliferation and cell death is essential to maintain
homeostasis within multicellular organisms. The mechanisms underlying this regulation are …

[HTML][HTML] Cell death in development

DL Vaux, SJ Korsmeyer - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Physiological mechanisms of cell death are used by multicellular organisms for
development and morphogenesis, to control cell number, and as a defensive strategy to …