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The six currently known death receptors and their respective ligands. All receptors contain several cytokine-rich domains (green) that are responsible for binding to the respective ligands. Following the transmembrane domain, the cytoplasmic region of each receptor pocesses a death domain (red) that is responsible for apoptosis induction.
