Acinus is a caspase-3-activated protein required for apoptotic chromatin condensation

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6749, 1999, Pages 168-173

  Sahara, Setsuko ^a,b   Aoto, Mamoru ^a,b   Eguchi, Yutaka ^a,b   Imamoto, Naoko ^a   Yoneda, Yoshihiro ^a   Tsujimoto, Yoshihide ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINUS PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; NUCLEAR FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033539067     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43678     Document Type: Article

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