Bcl-2 family of proteins: Life-or-death switch in mitochondria

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-58

  Tsujimoto, Yoshihide ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Mitochondria; Permeability; VDAC

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; ETOPOSIDE; GELSOLIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PACLITAXEL; PORIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; STAUROSPORINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PORINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036487232     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016061006256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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