ER stress signaling and the BCL-2 family of proteins: From adaptation to irreversible cellular damage

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2345-2355

  Hetz, Claudio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; BIM PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CASPASE; CASPASE 12; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIM BNIP2; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN BID; PROTEIN BLK; PROTEIN BMF; PROTEIN BNIP1; PROTEIN BNIP3; PROTEIN IRE1; PROTEIN MCL 1; PROTEIN NOXA; PROTEIN NR 13; PROTEIN PUMA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN SPIKE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ADAPTATION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL STRESS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; STRESS;

EID: 35848969791     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1793     Document Type: Review

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