Liha töötlemine
aging tenderization of meat. upon activation, which involves cleavage
of the pro-domain and dimerization, cleave
proteins at specific aspartic acid residues
Apoptosis Theory of Aging
(Sentandreu et al. 2002; Fuentes-Prior and
Tenderization
Salvesen 2004; Herrera-Mendez et al. 2006).
Recent data has indirectly shown that the To date there are 14 caspases that are divided
process of apoptosis may play a role in post- into three classes based on biological func-
mortem proteolysis and meat tenderization tion: cytokine activators that function in
(Herrera-Mendez et al. 2006; Ouali et al. inflammation, apoptosis initiator caspases,
2006)