Mch3, a Novel Human Apoptotic Cysteine Protease Highly Related to CPP32

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 6045-6052

  Fernandes Alnemri, Teresa ^a   Wang, Ljjuan ^a   Litwack, Gerald ^a   Alnemri, Emad S ^a   Yu, Zailin ^a   Croce, Carlo M ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^b   Earnshaw, William C ^b   Armstrong, Robert ^c   Krebs, Joseph ^c   Fritz, Lawrence ^c   Tomaselli, Kevin J ^c   Salveson, Guy ^d  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0028884167     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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