Apaf-1, a human protein homologous to C. elegans CED-4, participates in cytochrome c-dependent activation of caspase-3

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-413

  Zou, Hua ^a   Henzel, William J ^b   Liu, Xuesong ^a   Lutschg, Alexis ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE BINDING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030745646     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80501-2     Document Type: Article

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