Regulation of human cathepsin B by alternative mRNA splicing: Homeostasis, fatal errors and cell death

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 387, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1017-1021

  Baici, Antonio ^a   Müntener, Kathrin ^a   Willimann, Anna ^a   Zwicky, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cysteine peptidases; Mitochondria; Overexpression; Trafficking; Unfolded protein; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CYSTEINE PEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDASE; PROCATHEPSIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTHRITIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; SHORT SURVEY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CATHEPSIN B; CELL DEATH; EXONS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33746886312     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2006.125     Document Type: Short Survey

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