Apoptosis. All's well that ends dead.

作者： Timothy S. Zheng , Richard A. Flavell

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摘要: When under attack from pathogens, the body expands its population of lymphoid cells. Once pathogen has been destroyed, excess cells must be eliminated, and this is done by cell suicide (apoptosis). People with a disease called type II ALPS cannot efficiently destroy extra cells, it turns out that because they have mutations in protein at heart apoptosis, caspase-10.