Scythe: A novel reaper-binding apoptotic regulator

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 6135-6143

  Thress, Kenneth ^a   Henzel, William ^b   Shillinglaw, Wendy ^b   Kornbluth, Sally ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Reaper; Scythe; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL EXTRACTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032476659     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.21.6135     Document Type: Article

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