Comparative analysis of apoptosis and inflammation genes of mice and humans

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6 B, 2003, Pages 1376-1388

  Reed, John ^a,c   Doctor, Kutbuddin ^a   Rojas, Ana ^a   Zapata, Juan M ^a   Stehlik, Christian ^a   Fiorentino, Loredana ^a   Damiano, Jason ^a   Roth, Wilfried ^a   Matsuzawa, Shu Ichi ^a   Newman, Ruchi ^a   Takayama, Shinichi ^a   Marusawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Xu, Famming ^a   Salvesen, Guy ^a   Arakawa, Takahiro ^b   Carninci, Piero ^b,c   Kawai, Jun ^b,c   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^b,c   Godzik, Adam ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE INDUCTION; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAMMAL; MICROORGANISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CARD SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASES; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GUANYLATE KINASE; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B KINASE; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INFLAMMATION; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0038011500     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1053803     Document Type: Review

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