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Cell Death and Differentiation (1999) 6, 745 ± 752 ã 1999 Stockton Press All rights reserved 13509047/99 $15.00 http://www.stockton-press.co.uk/cdd Structure and promoter analysis of murine CAD and ICAD genes Kohki Kawane1,2, Hidehiro Fukuyama1,2, Masashi Adachi1,2, condensation, and formation of apoptotic bodies,2 and Hideki Sakahira1,2, Neal G. Copeland3, Debra J. Gilbert3, biochemically by degradation of chromosomal DNA into 3 Nancy A. Jenkin3 and Shigekazu Nagata*,1,2 nucleosomal units. Most of the apoptotic stimuli activate caspases, which are cysteine proteases that cleave various 1 Department of Genetics, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan substrates such as poly(ADP) ribose polymerase, lamin, and 2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and fodrin to promote the apoptotic process.4±7 We and others Technology Corporation, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan recently showed that a DNase (CAD, caspase-activated 3 Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, ABL-Basic Research Program, National DNase; also called CPAN, caspase activated nuclease, as Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, well as DFF-40, DNA fragmentation factor-40) is activated Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA during apoptosis, and cleaves the chromosomal DNA.8±12 In * corresponding author: Shigekazu Nagata, Ph.D., Department of Genetics, Osaka University Medical School B-3, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565- the growing, non-apoptotic cells, CAD is complexed with its 0871, Japan. inhibitor (ICAD, inhibitor of CAD; also called DFF-45) and tel: 81-6-6879-3310; fax: 81-6-6879-3319; predominantly localized in the cytoplasm.
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