Nature (London), 1995-07, Vol.376 (6535), p.37-43
1995
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- Titel
- Identification and inhibition of the ICE/CED-3 protease necessary for mammalian apoptosis
- Ist Teil von
- Nature (London), 1995-07, Vol.376 (6535), p.37-43
- Ort / Verlag
- London: Nature Publishing
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1995
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The protease responsible for the cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and necessary for apoptosis has been purified and characterized. This enzyme, named apopain, is composed of two subunits of relative molecular mass (M(r)) 17K and 12K that are derived from a common proenzyme identified as CPP32. This proenzyme is related to interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme (ICE) and CED-3, the product of a gene required for programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. A potent peptide aldehyde inhibitor has been developed and shown to prevent apoptotic events in vitro, suggesting that apopain/CPP32 is important for the initiation of apoptotic cell death.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0028-0836eISSN: 1476-4687DOI: 10.1038/376037a0Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_77362757
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Ageing, cell death, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Apoptosis - physiology, Biochemistry, Biological and medical sciences, Caenorhabditis elegans, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, Caspase 1, Caspase 3, Caspases, Cell physiology, Cysteine Endopeptidases - chemistry, Cysteine Endopeptidases - isolation & purification, Cysteine Endopeptidases - metabolism, Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors - pharmacology, Enzyme Precursors - metabolism, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Helminth Proteins - antagonists & inhibitors, Helminth Proteins - metabolism, Humans, Kinetics, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular and cellular biology, Molecular biology, Molecular Sequence Data, Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases - metabolism, Tumor Cells, Cultured