Apoptosis: It's BAK to VDAC

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1311-1313

  Shore, Gordon C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRESS; CYTOSOL; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERMEABILITY; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

EID: 73849118967     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.249     Document Type: Short Survey

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