Mch2, a New Member of the Apoptotic Ced-3/Ice Cysteine Protease Gene Family

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 1995, Pages 2737-2742

  Fernandes Alnemri, Teresa ^a   Litwack, Gerald ^a   Alnemri, Emad S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029025549     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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