Human CED-6 encodes a functional homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans engulfment protein CED-6

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 1347-1350

  Liu, Qiong A ^a,b   Hengartner, Michael O ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXYL TERMINUS; CELL ENGULFMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENGULFMENT PROTEIN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTEIN CED 6; PROTEIN HOMOLOG; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033581828     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)80061-5     Document Type: Article

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