Impact of genetic insights into calpain biology

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-37

  Sorimachi, Hiroyuki ^a   Hata, Shoji ^a   Ono, Yasuko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcium ion; calpain; intracellular proteolysis; muscular dystrophy; stomach ulcer

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; STOMACH DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALPAIN; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STOMACH ULCER;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960104591     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: 17562651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvr070     Document Type: Review

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