A combinatorial approach for determining protease specificities: Application to interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE)

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-155

  Rano, Thomas A ^a   Timkey, Tracy ^a   Peterson, Erin P ^a   Rotonda, Jennifer ^a   Nicholson, Donald W ^b   Becker, Joseph W ^a   Chapman, Kevin T ^a   Thornberry, Nancy A ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

caspase; cysteine protease; ICE; positional scanning; specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031080252     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90258-1     Document Type: Article

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