Three-dimensional structure of the apoptosome: Implications for assembly, procaspase-9 binding, and activation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 423-432

  Acehan, Devrim ^a   Jiang, Xuejun ^b   Morgan, David Gene ^a,c   Heuser, John E ^d   Wang, Xiaodong ^b   Akey, Christopher W ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSOME; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PROCASPASE 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0036187036     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(02)00442-2     Document Type: Article

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