Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6798, 2000, Pages 855-862

  Chai, Jijie ^a   Du, Chunying ^b   Wu, Jia Wei ^a   Kyin, Saw ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^b   Shi, Yigong ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; SECOND MITOCHONDRIAL ACTIVATOR OF CASPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; METAZOA;

EID: 0034710649     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35022514     Document Type: Article

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