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Roles of Apoptosis-Regulating Bcl-2 Family Genes in AML
Among the cardinal features of malignancy is abrogation of cell death mechanisms, thus endowing cancer and leukemia cells with a selective survival advantage relative to normal cells. Genetic and epigenetic le...
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The Patched dependence receptor triggers apoptosis through a DRAL–caspase-9 complex
Shh acts as a survival factor and in its absence its receptor, Patched, induces cell death by recruiting a caspase-activating complex formed by the adaptor protein DRAL, the CARD domain containing proteins TUC...
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BLOC1S2 interacts with the HIPPI protein and sensitizes NCH89 glioblastoma cells to apoptosis
The HIPPI (HIP-1 protein interactor) protein is a multifunctional protein that is involved in the regulation of apoptosis. The interaction partners of HIPPI include HIP-1 (Huntingtin-interacting protein-1), Ap...
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Yeast and Mammalian Two-Hybrid Systems for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
An important step in the analysis of protein function is identification of the interaction partners of each protein. The two-hybrid system has been widely used to identify and explore protein-protein interacti...
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Yeast and apoptosis
Even though yeast lack much of the molecular machinery that is responsible for apoptosis in metazoans, they can be a powerful tool in apoptosis research. The ectopic expression of several animal apoptosis prot...
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Molecular chaperone targeting and regulation by BAG family proteins
Regulated changes in protein conformation can have profound effects on protein function, although routine laboratory methods often fail to detect them. The recently discovered BAG-family proteins may operate a...
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Changes in intramitochondrial and cytosolic pH: early events that modulate caspase activation during apoptosis
Mitochondria trigger apoptosis by releasing caspase activators, including cytochrome c (cytC). Here we show, using a pH-sensitive green fluorescent protein (GFP), that mitochondria-dependent apoptotic stimuli (su...
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Survivin’ cell-separation anxiety
Survivin, a cell-death inhibitor, localizes to the spindles of mitotic cells, and its absence causes both a failure in cell division and induction of cell death. Might survivin link the control of cell death w...