Programming membrane fusion and subsequent apoptosis into mammalian cells

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 173-179

  Nagaraj, Seema ^a   Mills, Evan ^a   Wong, Stanley S C ^a   Truong, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cellular programming; membrane fusion; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MEMBRANE FUSION; METASTASIS; MICROTUBULE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNCYTIUM; TARGET CELL; TUMOR CELL; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 7; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GIANT CELLS; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; TRANSCELLULAR CELL MIGRATION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84876527716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb3000468     Document Type: Article

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