Identification of an endogenous dominant-negative short isoform of caspase-9 that can regulate apoptosis

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 999-1002

  Srinivasula, Srinivasa M ^a   Ahmad, Manzoor ^a   Guo, Yin ^a   Zhan, Yi ^a   Lazebnik, Yuri ^b   Fernandes Alnemri, Teresa ^a   Alnemri, Emad S ^a,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; JURKAT CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033104331     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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