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Caspase-10 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CASP10 gene.This gene encodes a protein that is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits large and small that dimerize to form the active enzyme.