Mechanistic insights into CED-4-mediated activation of CED-3

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 2039-2048

  Huang, Weijiao ^a,b   Jiang, Tianyu ^a,b   Choi, Wooyoung ^a,b   Qi, Shiqian ^a,b   Pang, Yuxuan ^a,b   Hu, Qi ^a,b   Xu, Yanhui ^c   Gong, Xinqi ^a,b   Jeffrey, Philip D ^d   Wang, Jiawei ^e   Shi, Yigong ^a,b  

^a School of Life Sciences   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase activation; CED 3; CED 4; Programmed cell death (PCD)

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSOME; CASPASE; CED 3 PROTEIN; CED 4 PROTEIN; ENZYME PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE ACTIVATION; CED-3; CED-4; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH (PCD);

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASPASES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 84884572146     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.224428.113     Document Type: Article

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