Apoptosis by leukemia cell-targeted diphtheria toxin occurs via receptor-independent activation of Fas-associated death domain protein

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 861-865

  Thorburn, Jacqueline ^a   Frankel, Arthur E ^a   Thorburn, Andrew ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FAS ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHIBITION KINETICS; LEUKEMIA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FAS-ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0037312490     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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