Deficiency of caspase-3 in MCF7 cells blocks Bax-mediated nuclear fragmentation but not cell death

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1474-1480

  Kagawa, S ^a   Gu, J ^a   Honda, T ^a   McDonnell, T J ^a   Swisher, S G ^a   Roth, J A ^a   Fang, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CELL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; LAMIN B; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASES; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE B; LAMINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034896098     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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