Caspase-mediated cleavage of APC results in an amino-terminal fragment with an intact armadillo repeat domain

FASEB Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 339-346

  Webb, Stephanie Johnson ^a,d   Nicholson, Donald ^b   Bubb, Vivien J ^a   Wyllie, Andrew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenomatous polyposis coli; Apoptosis; PARP; Protein kinase; catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; ONCOPROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; COLON POLYPOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ARMADILLO;

EID: 0033004165     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.2.339     Document Type: Article

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