Identification of functionally relevant histidine residues in the apoptotic nuclease CAD

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 3901-3909

  Meiss, Gregor ^a   Scholz, Sebastian Richard ^a   Korn, Christian ^a   Gimadutdinow, Oleg ^b   Pingoud, Alfred ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CASPASE ACTIVATED DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DIETHYL PYROCARBONATE; DNA; HISTIDINE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035476652     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.19.3901     Document Type: Article

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