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This enzyme is a member of a family of evolutionarily conserved cysteine protease proteins known as caspases. Caspase-7-like protein is encoded in the genome of Spodoptera frugiperda ascovirus, a DNA virus attacking lepidopterans. The caspase alone induces cell death by apoptosis in insect cells. The enzyme is involved in a process by which developing apoptotic bodies are rescued during viral infections in vivo to form large vesicles containing assembled virions. These vesicles are taken up from the blood during egg-laying by parasitic wasps that transmit the virus.
For other entries pertaining to cell death mechanisms see also the Apoptosis and Cell Death Dictionary
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