Assembly of the bak apoptotic pore: A critical role for the bak proteinα6 helix in the multimerization of homodimers during apoptosis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 26027-26038

  Ma, Stephen ^a,b   Hockings, Colin ^a,b   Anwari, Khatira ^a   Kratina, Tobias ^a,b   Fennell, Stephanie ^a,b   Lazarou, Michael ^c   Ryan, Michael T ^d   Kluck, Ruth M ^a,b   Dewson, Grant ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC; HOMODIMERS; ISCHEMIC STROKES; MULTIMERIZATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY;

CELL DEATH;

HOMODIMER; PROTEIN BAK;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

APOPTOSIS; BAK; BAX; BCL-2 FAMILY PROTEINS; BLUE NATIVE PAGE; MITOCHONDRIA; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BH3 INTERACTING DOMAIN DEATH AGONIST PROTEIN; CELLS, CULTURED; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL 2;

EID: 84883690023     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.490094     Document Type: Article

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