Caspase-3-generated fragment of gelsolin: Effector of morphological change in apoptosis

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5336, 1997, Pages 294-298

  Kothakota, Srinivas ^a   Azuma, Toshifumi ^b   Reinhard, Christoph ^a   Klippel, Anke ^a   Tang, Jay ^b   Chu, Keting ^a   McGarry, Thomas J ^c   Kirschner, Marc W ^c   Koths, Kirston ^a   Kwiatkowski, David J ^b   Williams, Lewis T ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; GELSOLIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ETIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID CHLOROMETHYL KETONES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CELL SIZE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GELSOLIN; HUMANS; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030820875     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5336.294     Document Type: Article

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