The interplay between BCL-2 family proteins and mitochondrial morphology in the regulation of apoptosis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 687, Issue , 2010, Pages 97-114

  Soriano, Maria Eugenia ^b   Scorrano, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCL2 RELATED PROTEIN A1; BH3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN MCL 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; MYELOID CELL LEUKEMIA SEQUENCE 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL X;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77958130220     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6706-0_6     Document Type: Article

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