Are metacaspases caspases?

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 375-380

  Vercammen, Dominique ^a,b   Declercq, Wim ^a,b   Vandenabeele, Peter ^a,b   Van Breusegem, Frank ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSOME; CASPASE; CASPASE 8; DNA FRAGMENT; PEPTIDASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLOROPLAST; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNGAL GENE; GERMINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPRUCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CATALYSIS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; METAZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 35948956253     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200705193     Document Type: Short Survey

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