A quantitative method for the specific assessment of caspase-6 activity in cell culture.

Aberrant activation of caspase-6 has recently emerged as a major contributor to the pathogeneses of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Huntington disease. Commercially available assays to measure caspase-6 activity commonly use the VEID peptide as a substrate. However these met...

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Main Authors: Dagmar E Ehrnhoefer, Niels H Skotte, Jane Savill, Yen T N Nguyen, Safia Ladha, Li-Ping Cao, Edie Dullaghan, Michael R Hayden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3226564?pdf=render