Multiple functions of BCL-2 family proteins

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Marie Hardwick, J ^a   Soane, Lucian ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PROTEIN BCL 2; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CALCIUM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84875192135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008722     Document Type: Article

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