Proapoptotic BH3 Bcl-2 Family Member Bik/Blk/Nbk Is Expressed in Hemopoietic and Endothelial Cells but Is Redundant for Their Programmed Death

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1570-1581

  Coultas, Leigh ^a   Bouille, Philippe ^a   Stanley, Edouard G ^a,b   Brodnicki, Thomas C ^a   Adams, Jerry M ^a   Strasser, Andreas ^a  

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

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; BLK PROTEIN, MOUSE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BIK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; STRESS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0842347424     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.4.1570-1581.2004     Document Type: Article

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