Caspases is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Caspases meaning
plural of caspase
Using Caspases
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of caspase
- In the example corpus, caspases often appears in combinations such as: caspases are, effector caspases, initiator caspases.
Context around Caspases
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Caspases
- In this selection, "caspases" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 15 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, effector, initiator and executioner stand out and add context to how "caspases" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activate executioner caspases which then and activate initiator caspases which then. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "caspases" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with caspases
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Treatments Treatments aiming to inhibit works to block specific caspases. (10 words)
Caspases are proteins that are highly conserved, cysteine-dependent aspartate-specific proteases. (12 words)
Effector caspases are then activated by these active initiator caspases through proteolytic cleavage. (13 words)
The two pathways both activate initiator caspases, which then activate executioner caspases, which then kill the cell by degrading proteins indiscriminately. (21 words)
The active effector caspases then proteolytically degrade a host of intracellular proteins to carry out the cell death program. (19 words)
Effector caspases are then activated by these active initiator caspases through proteolytic cleavage. (13 words)
Example sentences (5)
Effector caspases are then activated by these active initiator caspases through proteolytic cleavage.
The two pathways both activate initiator caspases, which then activate executioner caspases, which then kill the cell by degrading proteins indiscriminately.
Caspases are proteins that are highly conserved, cysteine-dependent aspartate-specific proteases.
The active effector caspases then proteolytically degrade a host of intracellular proteins to carry out the cell death program.
Treatments Treatments aiming to inhibit works to block specific caspases.
Common combinations with caspases
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: