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Identifying Caspases and their Motifs that Cleave Proteins During Influenza A Virus Infection
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Identification and analysis of caspase substrates: proteolytic cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase and DNA
C Boucher1, S Gobeil, K Samejima
1Health and Environment Unit, Laval University Medical Research Center, CHUQ and Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada G1V 4G2.
Methods in Cell Biology
|June 9, 2001
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