Mammalian cell death proteases: A family of highly conserved aspartate specific cysteine proteases

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-42

  Alnemri, Emad S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; CPP32; cysteine proteases; Mch2; Mch3; Mch4; Mch5

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASPARTIC ACID; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FORECASTING; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031044652     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(199701)64:1<33::AID-JCB6>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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