Thymidine phosphorylase inhibits the expression of proapoptotic protein BNIP3

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 370, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 220-224

  Ikeda, Ryuji ^a   Tajitsu, Yusuke ^a   Iwashita, Ken ichi ^a   Che, Xiao Fang ^a   Yoshida, Kenichi ^b   Ushiyama, Mina ^a   Furukawa, Tatsuhiko ^a   Komatsu, Masaharu ^a   Yamaguchi, Tatsuya ^a   Shibayama, Yoshihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Masatatsu ^a   Zhao, Hong Ye ^a   Arima, Junko ^a   Takeda, Yasuo ^a   Akiyama, Shin ichi ^a   Yamada, Katsushi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 Deoxy d ribose; Apoptosis; BNIP3; Hypoxia; Hypoxia inducible factor 1 ; Thymidine phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

2 DEOXYRIBOSE; CASPASE 3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; PROTEIN BNIP3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CELL HYPOXIA; DEOXYRIBOSE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; JURKAT CELLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 42249111522     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.03.067     Document Type: Article

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