Active Bax and Bak are functional holins

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2278-2290

  Pang, Xiaming ^a   Moussa, Samir H ^c   Targy, Natalie M ^a   Bose, Jeffrey L ^b   George, Nicholas M ^a   Gries, Casey ^b   Lopez, Hernando ^a   Zhang, Liqiang ^a   Bayles, Kenneth W ^b   Young, Ry ^c   Luo, Xu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial lysis; Bacterial plasma membrane holes; Bacteriophage; Bax and bak; Holin; Mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHIMERA; GENOME; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OUTER MEMBRANE; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, VIRAL; MUTATION; PORINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80455140223     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.171645.111     Document Type: Article

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