Structural basis of procaspase-9 recruitment by the apoptotic protease- activating factor 1

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 549-557

  Qin, Hongxu ^a   Srinivasula, Srinivasa M ^b   Wu, Geng ^a   Fernandes Alnemri, Teresa ^b   Alnemri, Emad S ^b   Shi, Ylgong ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; ENZYME PRECURSOR; PRO CASPASE 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BINDING SITES; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROSTATICS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0033542482     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21124     Document Type: Article

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