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BID-D59A is a potent inducer of apoptosis in primary embryonic fibroblasts.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 21 Mar 2003
Sarig Rachel, Zaltsman Yehudit, Marcellus Richard C, Flavell Richard, Mak Tak W, Gross Atan
Abstract excerpt
The proapoptotic activity of BID seems to solely depend upon its cleavage to truncated tBID. Here we demonstrate that expression of a caspase-8 non-cleavable (nc) BID-D59A mutant or expression of wild type (wt) BID induces apoptosis in Bid -/-, caspase-8 -/-, and wt primary MEFs. Western blot analysis indicated that no cleavage products appeared in cells expressing ncBID. ncBID was as effective as wtBID in...
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