Proteins with quite mundane functions in healthy cells often behave very differently during cell suicide. One protein normally involved in copying mitochondrial DNA actually degrades nuclear DNA in dying cells.
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Hengartner, M. DNA destroyers. Nature 412, 27–29 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35083663
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