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Leakage and aggregation of phospholipid vesicles induced by the BH3-only Bcl-2 family member, BID.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Jan 2001
Zhai D, Miao Q, Xin X, Yang F
Abstract excerpt
BID is a BH3 domain-only member of the Bcl-2 family that acts as an apoptotic agonist in programmed cell death. After cleavage by caspase-8, the N-terminal of BID (N-BID) stays in the cytosol while the C-terminal of BID (C-BID) translocates to mitochondria, leading to cytochrome c release in vivo and in vitro. We have previously reported that BID or truncated BID (tBID) can induce the release of entrapped trypsin...
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