Proapoptotic BAX and BAK control multiple initiator caspases

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-385

  Ruiz Vela, Antonio ^a,b   Opferman, Joseph T ^a   Cheng, Emily H Y ^a   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BAK; BAX; BCL 2; Mitochondrial pathway

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 11; CASPASE 12; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 9; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASES; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 17644371025     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400375     Document Type: Article

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