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Changes in intramitochondrial and cytosolic pH: early events that modulate caspase activation during apoptosis.
Nature cell biology - 1 Jun 2000
Matsuyama S, Llopis J, Deveraux Q L, Tsien R Y, Reed J C
Abstract excerpt
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 (such as Bax, staurosporine and ultraviolet irradiation) induce rapid, Bcl-2-inhibitable mitochondrial alkalinization and cytosol acidification, followed by cytC release, caspase activation and mitochondrial...
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