Protein isoaspartyl methyltransferase protects from Bax-induced apoptosis

Gene

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 333-341

  Huebscher, Karen J ^a   Lee, Janet ^a   Rovelli, Giorgio ^a   Ludin, Beat ^b   Matus, Andrew ^b   Stauffer, Daniela ^a   Fürst, Peter ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CGP3466; Cortical neurons; COS1 cells; Nerve growth factor; R ( ) Deprenyl; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; DIBENZOXEPIN DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; N METHYL N PROPARGYL 10 AMINOMETHYL DIBENZO[B,F]OXEPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE MUTATION; MACROGLIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BINDING SITES; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHO CELLS; COS CELLS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEURONS; OXEPINS; PROTEIN D-ASPARTATE-L-ISOASPARTATE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032754469     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00443-6     Document Type: Article

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