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Salt is necessary for nucleosomal DNA fragmentation induced by caspase.
Biotechnology letters - 1 Dec 2005
Kim Bo-Eun, Lee Yun-Hee, Seong Changhyun, Shin Song Yub, Lee Jung Sup, Cho Byung Yun, Park Il-Seon
Abstract excerpt
For nucleosomal DNA fragmentation, one of the hallmarks of apoptosis, activated caspase, an apoptosis specific cysteine protease, is required to cleave ICAD/DFF45 that releases its complexed DNase, CAD/DFF40. The protein complex is located predominantly in the nuclei. Inconsistently, caspase alone cannot induce DNA fragmentation in the isolated nuclei without the addition of a cell extract or purified CAD/DFF40....
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