A nuclear protein involved in apoptotic-like DNA degradation in Stylonychia: Implications for similar mechanisms in differentiating and starved cells

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3003-3014

  Maercker, Christian ^a   Kortwig, Heike ^a   Nikiforov, Mikhail A ^b,c   Allis, C David ^c   Lipps, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CILIATE; DNA DEGRADATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STYLONYCHIA; TETRAHYMENA; ZYGOTE;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; STYLONYCHIA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0032851768     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.9.3003     Document Type: Article

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