P-4 and RNKP-7, New Granzyme-Like Serine Proteases Expressed in Activated Rat Lymphocytes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4574-4583

  Ewoldt, Gerald R ^a,f   Smyth, Mark J ^c   Darcy, Phillip K ^c   Harris, Jennifer L ^d   Craik, Charles S ^d   Horowitz, Burton ^b   Woodard, Susan L ^a   Powers, James C ^e   Hudig, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AUSTIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031570032     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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