Dominant chymotrypsin-like esterase activity in human lymphocyte granules is mediated by the serine carboxypeptidase called cathepsin A-like protective protein

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 4663-4672

  Hanna, William L ^a,b   Turbov, Jane M ^a   Jackman, Herbert L ^b   Tan, Fulong ^b   Froelich, Christopher J ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; ESTERASE; SERINE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOKINE ACTIVATED KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CATHEPSINS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ESTERASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, LYMPHOKINE-ACTIVATED; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028053544     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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