The Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death protein CED-3 is a cysteine protease with substrate specificities similar to those of the human CPP32 protease

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1073-1083

  Xue, Ding ^a   Shaham, Shai ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; ced 3; cysteine proteases; Programmed cell death; substrate specificities

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL KILLING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

EID: 0029880987     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.9.1073     Document Type: Article

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