Overexpression of CERKL, a gene responsible for retinitis pigmentosa in humans, protects cells from apoptosis induced by oxidative stress

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 168-180

  Tuson, Miquel ^a,c   Garanto, Alejandro ^a,b   Gonzàlez Duarte, Roser ^a,b   Marfany, Gemma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CASPASE; CELL PROTEIN; CERAMIDE KINASE LIKE PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; LIPID; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; PROTEIN CERKL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRAIN COS7; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FETUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCROSE GRADIENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CERAMIDES; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CYTOPROTECTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 59249100880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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