A quantitative method for the specific assessment of caspase-6 activity in cell culture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ehrnhoefer, Dagmar E ^a   Skotte, Niels H ^a,c   Savill, Jane ^b   Nguyen, Yen T N ^a   Ladha, Safia ^a   Cao, Li Ping ^a   Dullaghan, Edie ^b   Hayden, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Centre for Drug Research and Development   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 6; EPITOPE; LAMIN A; CELL EXTRACT; LAMIN; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME MODIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CASPASE 6; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL EXTRACTS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; ENZYME ASSAYS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LAMINS; LUMINESCENCE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PEPTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82255169352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027680     Document Type: Article

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