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Book chapter
Measurement of calpain activity in vitro and in situ using a fluorescent compound and tau as substrates
Calpain Methods and Protocols, Vol.144, pp.143-150
144, Humana Press
2000
Abstract
Calpains play important roles in numerous physiological and pathological processes (1,2) by catalyzing the limited proteolysis of a wide variety of protein substrates. The activity of calpain toward a specific substrate is regulated not only by calcium, but also by numerous other factors including calpain activator proteins (3), redox state (4,5), and the phosphorylation state of the substrate (6, 7, 8). In order to determine the relative contributions of these and other factors to the activity of calpain, it is necessary to be able to measure calpain activity both in vitro and in situ, and these assays are the subject of this chapter.
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- Title
- Measurement of calpain activity in vitro and in situ using a fluorescent compound and tau as substrates
- Publication Details
- Calpain Methods and Protocols, Vol.144, pp.143-150
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Contributors
- John S. Elce (Editor)
- Publisher
- Humana Press; Totowa, NJ
- Series
- 144
- Identifiers
- 99380090876806600
- Academic Unit
- Biology; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English