Assessment of caspase activities in intact apoptotic thymocytes using cell-permeable fluorogenic caspase substrates

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 191, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1819-1828

  Komoriya, Akira ^a   Packard, Beverly Z ^a   Brown, Martin J ^b   Wu, Ming Lei ^b   Henkart, Pierre A ^b  

^a OncoImmunin Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; Lymphocyte; PhiPhiLux(TM); Thymocyte

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE;

AMINO ACID CHLOROMETHYL KETONES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CELL EXTRACTS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUORESCENT DYES; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; RHODAMINES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0034608386     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.11.1819     Document Type: Article

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