"Licensed to kill": Tyrosine dephosphorylation and Bak activation

Cell Cycle

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 598-603

  Fox, Joanna ^a   Azad, Abul ^a   Ismail, Ferina ^b   Storey, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bak; BH3; Mitochondria; p53; Phosphatase; Phosphorylation; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TYROSINE;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL KILLING; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA REPAIR; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

EID: 79951909056     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.4.14793     Document Type: Review

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