Caspase-3 and caspase-7 but not caspase-6 cleave Gas2 in vitro: Implications for microfilament reorganization during apoptosis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4475-4482

  Sgorbissa, Andrea ^a   Benetti, Roberta ^b   Marzinotto, Stefania ^b   Schneider, Claudio ^a,b   Brancolini, Claudio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Lab Naz Consorzio I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actin; Death substrate; MCF 7; PARP

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; F ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

3T3 CELLS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASES; COS CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 0033491725     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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