Caspase cleavage of keratin 18 and reorganization of intermediate filaments during epithelial cell apoptosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1379-1394

  Caulín, Carlos ^a   Salvesen, Guy S ^a   Oshima, Robert G ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030770449     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.6.1379     Document Type: Article

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