Why do regulators of apoptosis look like bacterial toxins?
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Why do regulators of apoptosis look like bacterial toxins?
Correspondence Why do regulators of apoptosis look like bacterial toxins? Yuri Lazebnik The Bcl-2 family of proteins includes key regulators of apoptosis (reviewed in [1,2]), some of which promote cell death while others prevent it. The observation that the Bcl-2 family regulates the release of pro-apoptotic proteins from mitochondria led to the concept that members of the family control cell s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00465-1