Activation mechanism and substrate specificity of the Drosophila initiator caspase DRONC

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 938-945

  Snipas, S J ^a   Drag, M ^a,b   Stennicke, H R ^c   Salvesen, G S ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CASPASE; DIMER; DROSOPHILA INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; DROSOPHILA NEDD2 LIKE CASPASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 42149169031     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2008.23     Document Type: Article

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