Specificity of aza-peptide electrophile activity-based probes of caspases

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 727-732

  Sexton, K B ^a   Kato, D ^a   Berger, A B ^a   Fonovic, M ^a,b   Verhelst, S H L ^a   Bogyo, M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVENIN; CASPASE; CATHEPSIN B; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ELECTROPHILIC STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AZA COMPOUNDS; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947395719     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4402074     Document Type: Article

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