Movement of Bax from the cytosol to mitochondria during apoptosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1281-1292

  Wolter, Keith G ^a   Hsu, Yi Te ^a   Smith, Carolyn L ^a   Nechushtan, Amotz ^a   Xi, Xu Guang ^a   Youle, Richard J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRAIN COS1; CELL STRAIN L 929; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; COS CELLS; CYTOSOL; DIFFUSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030780106     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.5.1281     Document Type: Article

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