The apoptosome is a caspase-activating structure: it causes, as a final result, the activation of the downstream effector caspases, particularly executors of the cell death program, caspase-3 and caspase-7. Recent studies have shown that apoptosome may be finally regulated under normal physiological state and may be altered under different pathological conditions (4). Dying by apoptosis requires energy in the form of ATP and has a very rapid course (5). The highly stereotyped changes accompanying apoptosis suggested to early workers that this type of cell death was under the control of a strict genetic program and induced them to define this type of cell death as a “programmed or controlled death.”