Cancer Prevention by Tea Polyphenols Is Linked to Their Direct Inhibition of Antiapoptotic Bcl-2-Family Proteins

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 8118-8121

  Leone, Marilisa ^a   Zhai, Dayong ^a   Sareth, Sina ^a   Kitada, Shinichi ^a   Reed, John C ^a   Pellecchia, Maurizio ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK TEA EXTRACT; CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GALLOCATECHIN; GALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; NATURAL PRODUCT; POLYPHENOL; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; THEAFLAVIN; THEAFLAVIN 3,3' DIGALLATE; THEAFLAVINE 3' GALLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BIFLAVONOIDS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; FLAVONOIDS; GALLIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHENOLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TEA;

EID: 0347626109     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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