Pripper: prediction of caspase cleavage sites from whole proteomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Caspases are a family of proteases that have central functions in programmed cell death (apoptosis) and inflammation. Caspases mediate their effects through aspartate-specific cleavage of their target proteins, and at present almost...

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Main Authors: Salmi Jussi, Nevalainen Olli S, Lietzén Niina, Piippo Mirva, Nyman Tuula A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/320