Cytochrome c: Functions beyond respiration

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 532-542

  Ow, Yong Ling P ^a   Green, Douglas R ^b   Hao, Zhenyue ^a   Mak, Tak W ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CALCIUM ION; CASPASE; CASPASE 9; CERAMIDE; CYTOCHROME C; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL RESPIRATION; CHANNEL GATING; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASES; CELL RESPIRATION; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOCHROMES C; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 45849085339     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2434     Document Type: Review

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