Killer enzymes tethered

Shigekazu Nagata ()
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Shigekazu Nagata: Shigekazu Nagata is in the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Immunology, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

Nature, 2016, vol. 533, issue 7604, 475-476

Abstract: Caspase enzymes promote cell death, but are also involved in sperm development in fruit flies. The discovery that, in sperm, caspase activation is restricted to the surface of organelles called mitochondria sheds light on this unusual role.

Date: 2016
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