Structure-function comparisons of the proapoptotic protein bax in yeast and mammalian cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 6494-6508

  Zha, Hongbin ^a   Fisk, Harold A ^b   Yaffe, Michael P ^b   Mahajan, Nupam ^c   Herman, Brian ^c   Reed, John C ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; DIMERIZATION; DNA DEGRADATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029848765     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.11.6494     Document Type: Article

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