Caenorhabditis elegans caspase homolog CSP-2 inhibits CED-3 autoactivation and apoptosis in germ cells

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1385-1394

  Geng, X ^a   Zhou, Q H ^a   Kage Nakadai, E ^b   Shi, Y ^c   Yan, N ^c   Mitani, S ^b   Xue, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; PROTEIN CED 3; PROTEIN CSP 2; PROTEIN CSP 2B; PROTEIN CSP 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASE 2; CASPASES; GERM CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70349175834     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2009.88     Document Type: Article

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