Bax assembly into rings and arcs in apoptotic mitochondria is linked to membrane pores

EMBO Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 389-401

  Salvador Gallego, Raquel ^a,b   Mund, Markus ^c   Cosentino, Katia ^a,b   Schneider, Jale ^d   Unsay, Joseph ^a,b   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^e   Engelhardt, Johann ^d   Ries, Jonas ^c   García Sáez, Ana J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM; apoptosis; Bcl 2; pore forming protein; super resolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NANOBODY; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEOLIPOSOME; STAUROSPORINE; BAX PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYTOCHROME C; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSOL; DUAL COLOR SINGLE MOLECULE LOCALIZATION BASED SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIPID BILAYER; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; OLIGOMERIZATION; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CYTOCHROMES C; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; PERMEABILITY; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84958632050     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201593384     Document Type: Article

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