Caspases: An ancient cellular sword of Damocles

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-37

  Boyce, M ^a   Degterev, A ^a   Yuan, J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; ced 3; Drosophila; Evolution; Invertebrate caspases

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 8; CLOSTRIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GENE PRODUCT; GINGIPAIN R; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; ISOPROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIACEAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1642474148     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401339     Document Type: Review

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