Caspases Target Only Two Architectural Components within the Core Structure of the Nuclear Pore
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Received for publication,October 31 , 2005, and in revised form, November 14,2005 Published, JBC Papers in Press, November 14, 2005, 0011 0.1 074/jbc.M5117172oo Monika Patre*, Anja Tabbert*, Daniela Hermann*, Henning Walczak§, Hans-Richard Rackwitz~, Volker C. Cordes ll**, and Elisa Ferrando-May*l From the *Molecular Toxicology Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Konstanz, 0-78457 Konstanz, Germany, the §Tumor Immunology Program Division of Apoptosis Regulation, German Cancer Research Center, INF 280,0-69720 Heidelberg, Germany, the ~Peptide Specialty Laboratories GmbH, Sitzbuchweg 72,0-69778 Heidelberg, Germany, the 1I0epartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, S7 77 77 Stockholm, Sweden, and the ** Zentrum fuer Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, INF 282,0-69720 Heidelberg, Germany
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