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Nature Cell Biology 9, 245–246 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/ncb0307-245

Moving away from death: when caspase-11 meets cofilin

Maryse Bailly

The caspase family of cysteine proteases is comprised of more than a dozen proteins that are largely involved in promoting apoptosis — the programmed cell death central to normal development and homeostasis. However, their usually constitutive expression suggests that they may have much broader functions.