Purification and characterization of lymphocyte chymase I, a granzyme implicated in perforin-mediated lysis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4988-4993

  Woodard, Susan L ^a   Fraser, Stephanie A ^b   Winkler, Ulrike ^a   Jackson, Delwin S ^c   Kam, Chih Min ^c   Powers, James C ^c   Hudig, Dorothy ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; COPPER ION; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GRANZYME A; PERFORIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MAST CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CHYMASES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0032524994     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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