Humanin peptide suppresses apoptosis by interfering with Bax activation

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 456-461

  Guo, Bin ^a   Zhai, Dayong ^a   Cabezas, Edelmira ^a   Welsh, Kate ^a   Nouraini, Shahrzad ^a   Satterthwait, Arnold C ^a   Reed, John C ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; DISEASES; RNA;

BAX PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; CYTOCHROME C; HUMANIN; PROTEIN BAX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOSOL; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOSOL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038485614     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01627     Document Type: Article

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