
thumb|alt=3D structure of the human apoptosome-CARD complex.|3D structure of the human apoptosome-CARD complex. blue: apoptosome platform; magenta: CARD disk
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thumb|alt=3D structure of the human apoptosome-CARD complex.|3D structure of the human apoptosome-CARD complex. blue: apoptosome platform; magenta: CARD disk
The apoptosome is a quaternary protein structure formed in the process of apoptosis. It is formed by the release of cytochrome c from the mitochondrion responses to an internal (intrinsic) or external (extrinsic) cell death stimulus. Stimuli can differ from DNA damage or viral infection to developmental signals for instance like those leading to the degradation of a tadpole’s tail.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).