Analysis of the minimal specificity of CED-3 using a yeast transcriptional reporter system

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1783, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 448-454

  Westein, Sarah J ^a   Scott, Fiona L ^b   Hawkins, Christine J ^a,c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Caspase; Nematode; Protease; S. cerevisiae; Substrate

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CASPASE; PROTEIN CED 3; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; YEASTS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 38949170938     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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