Mono- or double-site phosphorylation distinctly regulates the proapoptotic function of bax

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Qinhong ^a   Sun, Shi Yong ^b   Khuri, Fadlo ^b   Curran, Walter J ^b   Deng, Xingming ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; EPITOPE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL LINE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA PRIMERS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 78149430731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013393     Document Type: Article

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