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Following cytochrome c release, autophagy is inhibited during chemotherapy-induced apoptosis by caspase 8-mediated cleavage of Beclin 1.
Cancer research - 15 May 2011
Li Hua, Wang Peng, Sun Quanhong, Ding Wen-Xing, Yin Xiao-Ming, Sobol Robert W, Stolz Donna B, Yu Jian, Zhang Lin
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Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved stress response mechanism that often occurs in apoptosis-defective cancer cells and can protect against cell death. In this study, we investigated how apoptosis and autophagy affect each other in cancer cells in response to chemotherapeutic treatment. We f...
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