New members of the Bcl-2 family and their protein partners

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-49

  Farrow, Stuart N ^a   Brown, Robin ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; DIMERIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029670590     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(96)90009-X     Document Type: Article

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