Bfk: A novel weakly proapoptotic member of the Bcl-2 protein family with a BH3 and a BH2 region

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Coultas, L ^a   Pellegrini, M ^a   Visvader, J E ^a   Lindeman, G J ^a   Chen, L ^a   Adams, J M ^a   Huang, D C S ^a   Strasser, A ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; BH3 only proteins; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BFK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DATA BASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; STOMACH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038702644     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401204     Document Type: Article

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