Proteolytic processing of the adherens junctions components β-catenin and γ-catenin/plakoglobin during apoptosis

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1042-1050

  Brancolini, Claudio ^a,b   Sgorbissa, Andrea ^a   Schneider, Claudio ^a,b  

^a Lab Naz Consorzio I   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cadherins; Caspases; PARP; UV

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CELL PROTEIN; PLAKOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032429121     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400443     Document Type: Article

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