Engineering a photoactivated caspase-7 for rapid induction of apoptosis

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 75-82

  Mills, Evan ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Pham, Elizabeth ^a   Wong, Stanley ^a   Truong, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Engineered proteins; Photoactivatable proteins

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 7; PROTEIN BCL 2;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 7; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84865279249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb200008     Document Type: Article

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