Apoptosis - Death cycle and Swiss army knives

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Hengartner, MO [1 ]
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[1] Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
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10.1038/35036
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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When a cell starts to undergo programmed cell death, cytochromec moves from the mitochondria, where it usually acts in an electron-transfer chain, to the cytosol. One of the relatively recent dogmas of apoptosis is that the death-suppressing protein Bcl-2 acts before cytochrome c in this pathway. But two new papers could overturn this dogma, by showing that Bcl-2 can also protect cells after cytochrome chas been released.
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