An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7462, 2013, Pages 354-358

  Hirose, Takashi ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; CASPASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE RELATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ENZYME; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; INTERNEURON; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VENTRAL ROOT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84881664318     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12329     Document Type: Article

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