Mitochondrial release of caspase-2 and -9 during the apoptotic process

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-393

  Susin, Santos A ^a   Lorenzo, Hans K ^b   Zamzami, Naoufal ^a   Marzo, Isabel ^a   Brenner, Catherine ^a,c   Larochette, Nathanael ^a   Prévost, Marie Christine ^b   Alzari, Pedro M ^b   Kroemer, Guido ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^d NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Caspase; Mitochondria; Permeability transition; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; FEMALE; FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033579810     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.2.381     Document Type: Article

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