Mitochondria in Apoptosis: Bcl-2 Family Members and Mitochondrial Dynamics

Developmental Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-101

  Martinou, Jean Claude ^a,b   Youle, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DROSOPHILA; INVERTEBRATE; LIPID BILAYER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; WORM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960230433     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.06.017     Document Type: Review

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