The C. elegans cell death gene ced-3 encodes a protein similar to mammalian interleukin-1β-converting enzyme

Cell

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 641-652

  Yuan, Junying ^a,b,c   Shaham, Shai ^b   Ledoux, Stephane ^c   Ellis, Hilary M ^b   Horvitz, H Robert ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CASPASE 1; CELL DEATH; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, STRUCTURAL, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0027525104     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90485-9     Document Type: Article

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