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Hsp70 mutant proteins modulate additional apoptotic pathways and improve cell survival.
Cell stress & chaperones - 1 Jan 2004
Ran Ruiqiong, Zhou Guoping, Lu Aigang, Zhang Lu, Tang Yang, Rigby Alan C, Sharp Frank R
Abstract excerpt
Although wild-type Hsp70 (Hsp70WT) inhibits procaspase-3 processing by preventing apoptosome formation, Hsp70WT does not block active caspase-3. Because all caspase-3 inhibitors bear canonical DXXD caspase-3 recognition motifs, we determined whether mutated Hsp70s with caspase-binding motifs act...
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