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Coupling of caspase-9 to Apaf1 in response to loss of pRb or cytotoxic drugs is cell-type-specific.
The EMBO journal - 28 Jan 2004
Ho Andrew T, Li Qin H, Hakem Razqallah, Mak Tak W, Zacksenhaus Eldad
Abstract excerpt
Inactivation of the tumor suppressor Rb in the mouse induces cell death, which depends entirely (in lens, CNS) and only partly (PNS, skeletal muscles) on Apaf1/Ced4, an apoptosomal factor thought to be required for processing procaspase-9 following mitochondrial permeabilization. Here, we report...
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