C. elegans MAC-1, an essential member of the AAA family of ATPases, can bind CED-4 and prevent cell death

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2021-2031

  Wu, Dayang ^a   Chen, Pei Jiun ^b   Chen, Shu ^a   Hu, Yuanming ^a   Nuñez, Gabriel ^a   Ellis, Ronald E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

AAA proteins; Apoptosis; CED 4; Programmed cell death; Smallminded

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE FUNCTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSGENE; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC);

EID: 0032968207     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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