Truncated human Cathepsin L, encoded by a novel splice variant, exhibits altered subcellular localization and cytotoxicity

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-245

  Sansanwal, Poonam ^a,b   Shukla, Abhay A ^a   Das, Taposh K ^a   Chauhan, Shyam S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Immunogold electron microscopy; Splice variant; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CTSL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSIN L; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE THERAPY; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77949988627     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986610790225932     Document Type: Article

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