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Apoptosis within the cell occurs through strated that caspases and the caspase inhibitor
the action of the caspase enzyme system. apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment
Detailed information on the structure, activ- domain (ARC) can be detected in different
ity, activation, and inhibition of caspases can muscle types at varying levels of expression
be found in the review of Fuentes-Prior and (Kemp et al. 2006a). Incubation of recombi-
Salvesen (2004). In brief, caspases are a nant caspase 3 with porcine myofibrils
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resulted in the degradation of desmin, tropo- have observed cross-talk between the calpain
nin I, actin, troponin T, and myosin light and caspase systems during apoptosis, in
chains under in vitro conditions similar to which calpain activity is indirectly up-regu-