摘要:
A 24 kilodalton cytoplasmic protease which cleaves at proline-valine bonds is purified from UV-induced human U937 histiocytic lymphoma cells by affinity chromatography using the inhibitor DK120 as the ligand, followed by heparin-sepharose chromatography and reverse phase HPLC. Treating nuclei of uninduced U937 cells with the affinity-purified protease is sufficient to activate internucleosomal DNA fragmentation characteristic of apoptosis as demonstrated by gel electrophoresis in the figure.