The Apoptosome: Physiological, Developmental, and Pathological Modes of Regulation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-561

  Schafer, Zachary T ^a   Kornbluth, Sally ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APOPTOSOME; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 9; CISPLATIN; CYTOCHROME C; PACLITAXEL DERIVATIVE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROTECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS;

EID: 33646087420     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2006.04.008     Document Type: Review

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