Apoptosis: Embedded in membranes

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 845-851

  Bogner, Christian ^a   Leber, Brian ^a   Andrews, David W ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN BID;

APOPTOSIS; DIMERIZATION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 78649631989     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.002     Document Type: Review

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