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Open AccessUnconventional activation of PRKDC by TNF-α: deciphering its crucial role in Th1-mediated inflammation beyond DNA repair as part of the DNA-PK complex
The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) complex comprises a catalytic (PRKDC) and two requisite DNA-binding (Ku70/Ku80) subunits. The role of the complex in repairing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) is est...
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Cell-Penetrating Penta-Peptides and Bax-Inhibiting Peptides: Protocol for Their Application
The first series of cell-penetrating penta-peptides (CPP5s) were discovered as cytoprotective penta-peptides designed from the Bax-inhibiting domain of Ku70. Bax is an inducer of programmed cell death, and Ku7...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Ku70 suppresses the apoptotic translocation of Bax to mitochondria
Authors' statement In Fig. 4c–e, Fig. 6e and Supplementary Information, Fig. S2a, western blot images were inappropriately processed for publication by the first author, M. Sawada. Figures containing the corre...
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Cytoprotective membrane-permeable peptides designed from the Bax-binding domain of Ku70
Bax is a pro-apoptotic member of Bcl-2 family proteins and is central to mitochondria-dependent apoptosis1,2,3. Bax resides in the cytosol as a quiescent protein and translocates into mitochondria after apoptotic...
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Ku70 suppresses the apoptotic translocation of Bax to mitochondria
Bax induces mitochondrial-dependent cell death signals in mammalian cells. However, the mechanism of how Bax is kept inactive has remained unclear. Yeast-based functional screening of Bax inhibitors from mamma...
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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...