Pro-apoptotic activity of transiently expressed BCL-2 occurs independent of BAX and BAK.

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BCL-2 suppresses apoptosis induced by a wide variety of stimuli in multiple cell types. Most of the in vitro studies that have examined the activity of BCL-2 have employed stable cell lines that ectopically express BCL-2. We have reported that BCL-2 is expressed at high levels in the absence of the 5'- and 3'-UTRs of the Bcl-2 gene and transient high level of expression results in potent cell death (Uhlmann et...

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