BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6874, 2002, Pages 922-926

  Bouillet, Philippe ^a   Purton, Jared F ^b   Godfrey, Dale I ^b   Zhang, Li Chen ^a   Coultas, Lelgh ^a   Puthalakath, Hamsa ^a   Pellegrini, Marc ^a   Cory, Suzanne ^a   Adams, Jerry M ^a   Strasser, Andreas ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

APOPTOSIS; THYMOCYTES;

GENES;

BH3 PROTEIN; BIM PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; GENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LINKAGE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; LEUKOPOIESIS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SELF TOLERANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037148840     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415922a     Document Type: Article

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