Dismantling cell-cell contacts during apoptosis is coupled to a caspase- dependent proteolytic cleavage of β-catenin

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 759-771

  Brancolini, Claudio ^a,c   Lazarevic, Dean ^a   Rodriguez, Joe ^b   Schneider, Claudio ^a,c  

^a AREA Science Park   (Italy)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CONTACT; CELL DEATH; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

3T3 CELLS; ACTINS; ALPHA CATENIN; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETA CATENIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CISPLATIN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOGS; HYDROLYSIS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICROFILAMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030707519     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.3.759     Document Type: Article

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