product name Z-VAD-FMK
Description: Z-VAD-FMK, an inhibitor of ICE-like proteases, inhibits apoptosis in THP.1 cells induced by diverse stimuli and Fas antigen-induced apoptosis in Jurkat T-cells. It inhibits apoptosis by blocking the activation of proCPP32 into its active form, rather than by preventing the proteolytic action of CPP32 directly. Z- VAD-FMK inhibits the formation of large kilobasepair fragments of DNA induced by diverse stimuli. Z-VAD-FMK had little or no effect on STS-induced necrotic cell death suggesting that the ICE-like protease activity was not involved in necrosis.
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