Proteolytic cleavage of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) by calpain I

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1568, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 216-224

  Walker, Gaby ^a   Pfeilschifter, Josef ^b   Otten, Uwe ^a   Kunz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calmodulin binding site; Calpain I; Dexamethasone; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Macrophage cell line RAW 264.7

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CALMODULIN; CALPAIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MONOMER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CALMODULIN; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CALPAIN; CELL LINE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; DEXAMETHASONE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MACROPHAGES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PLASMIDS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035915497     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(01)00223-9     Document Type: Article

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