Caspase 3 cleavage of the Ste20-related kinase SLK releases and activates an apoptosis-inducing kinase domain and an actin-disassembling region

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 684-696

  Sabourin, Luc A ^a   Seale, Patrick ^a   Wagner, Julian ^a   Rudnicki, Michael A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN KINASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUSCLES; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033961249     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.2.684-696.2000     Document Type: Article

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