Caspase cleavage of vimentin disrupts intermediate filaments and promotes apoptosis

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 443-450

  Byun, Y ^a   Chen, F ^a   Chang, R ^a   Trivedi, M ^a   Green, K J ^a   Cryns, V L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caspases; Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filaments; Proteases; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; VIMENTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; ASPARTIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; STAUROSPORINE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0035020420     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400840     Document Type: Article

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