Chlamydia inhibit host cell apoptosis by degradation of proapoptotic BH3-only proteins

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 200, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 905-916

  Fischer, Silke F ^a   Vier, Juliane ^a   Kirschnek, Susanne ^a   Klos, Andreas ^b   Hess, Simone ^b   Ying, Songmin ^a   Häcker, Georg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cell death; Mitochondria; Pathogens; Proteasome

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; BIM PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN PUMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING;

APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 5444245799     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040402     Document Type: Article

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