Does the Caenorhabditis elegans protein CED-4 contain a region of homology to the mammalian death effector domain?

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 523-525

  Peter, Marcus E ^a   Medema, Jan Paul ^a   Krammer, Peter H ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

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EID: 84984766910     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400285     Document Type: Article

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