To examine a role for caspases in the decreased AKT levels, we examined the activation of effector caspases 3 and 7 during infection and observed higher levels of cleaved caspase 3 in infected cells during infection at 120 hpi, but no difference in cleaved caspase 7 between the uninfected and infected cells (Figure 2b). This evidence concerns the gene CASP3 and infection.