The N-terminus and alpha-5, alpha-6 helices of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax, modulate functional interactions with the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL

BMC Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Parikh, Neha ^a   Koshy, Caroline ^a   Dhayabaran, Vaigundan ^a   Perumalsamy, Lakshmi R ^a   Sowdhamini, R ^a   Sarin, Apurva ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BH3 PROTEIN; BIM PROTEIN; CASPASE 9; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN BID; PROTEIN KINASE B; BAX PROTEIN, MOUSE; BCL2L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MITOCHONDRION; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 34250335634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-8-16     Document Type: Article

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