Caspases in yeast apoptosis-like death: Facts and artefacts

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-21

  Váchová, Libuše ^a   Palková, Zdena ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Apoptosis and programmed cell death in yeast; Caspases and metacaspases; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Yeast multicellular populations

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; PROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33846285777     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00137.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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