Plant phytaspases and animal caspases: Structurally unrelated death proteases with a common role and specificity

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-84

  Chichkova, Nina V ^a   Tuzhikov, Alexander I ^a   Taliansky, Michael ^b   Vartapetian, Andrey B ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CASPASE; SUBTILASE, PLANT; SUBTILISIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CASPASES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL DEATH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEOLYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUBTILISINS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84859845738     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01560.x     Document Type: Review

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