The protein bcl-2α does not require membrane attachment, but two conserved domains to suppress apoptosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1059-1068

  Borner, Christoph ^a,c   Martinou, Isabelle ^b   Mattmann, Chantal ^a   Irmler, Martin ^a   Schaerer, Esther ^a   Martinou, Jean Claude ^b   Tschopp, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GlaxoSmithKline   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0028167978     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.126.4.1059     Document Type: Article

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