Three-dimensional structure of the apoptosome: implications for assembly, procaspase-9 binding, and activation.

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Published in Mol Cell on February 01, 2002

Authors

Devrim Acehan1, Xuejun Jiang, David Gene Morgan, John E Heuser, Xiaodong Wang, Christopher W Akey

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1: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.

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