A molecular switch that governs mitochondrial fusion and fission mediated by the BCL2-like protein CED-9 of Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 41, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Yun ^a   Rolland, Stéphane G ^a,b   Conradt, Barbara ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

B cell lymphoma 2 family of proteins; Dynamin like GTpases

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN CED 9; PROTEIN DRP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION; MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL PROFISSION; MITOCHONDRIAL PROFUSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DYNAMINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 80054765894     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103218108     Document Type: Article

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