Cytoprotective membrane-permeable peptides designed from the Bax-binding domain of Ku70

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 352-357

  Sawada, Motoshi ^a   Hayes, Paulette ^a   Matsuyama, Shigemi ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; STAUROSPORINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PROTECTION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; CYTOSOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0037386258     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb955     Document Type: Article

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