Bax- and bak-induced cell death in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-339

  Jürgensmeier, Juliane M ^a   Krajewski, Stanislaw ^a   Armstrong, Robert C ^b   Wilson, Gary M ^b   Oltersdorf, Tilman ^b   Fritz, Lawrence C ^b   Reed, John C ^a,b   Ottilie, Sabine ^b  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0343199181     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.2.325     Document Type: Article

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