... (0.2 lm and 20 lm; Roche Diagnostics), pan caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK (50 lm; Peptide Institute), caspase- 1 and -4 inhibitor Z-YVAD-FMK (50 lm; Bachem, Du¨ben-dorf, Switzerland), caspase- 2 ... tract was cleaved by caspase- 3 in vitro and in thehuman brain tissues [27], and that cleavage at the caspase- 6 site in huntingtin was essential for theHD-related behavioural and neuropathological ... cleavage sites for caspase werecontained in huntingtin, ATN1, ataxin-3 and androgenreceptor, and showed that the cleavage of all four pro-teins could be inhibited by treatment of caspase inhibi-tors....