The present report overviews a new family of bovine serpins able to inhibit pseudo-irreversibly initiator and effector caspases, a group of cysteine proteases in charge of cell dismantling during apoptosis, a finely r...
Project supported by Birmingham University (UK) Fellowship.
The study of serpin deficiency is currently one of the most active areas in basic medical research. Recently, three hypotheses concerning serpin deficiency have been proposed, which are referred to as the conformation...