Specific aspartyl and calpain proteases are required for neurodegeneration in C. Elegans

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6910, 2002, Pages 939-944

  Syntichaki, Popi ^a   Xu, Keli ^b,c   Driscoll, Monica ^c   Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CELLS; DISEASES; GENES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ION CHANNELS;

ENZYMES;

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CALPAIN; CALRETICULIN; CHAPERONE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPSTATIN; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; STIMULATORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CALPAIN; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NECROSIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SODIUM CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037206901     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01108     Document Type: Article

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