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Bax- and Bak-induced cell death in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Feb 1997
Jürgensmeier J M, Krajewski S, Armstrong R C, Wilson G M, Oltersdorf T, Fritz L C, Reed J C, Ottilie S
Abstract excerpt
The effects of the expression of the human Bcl-2 family proteins Bax, Bak, Bcl-2, and Bcl-XL were examined in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and compared with Bax-induced cell death in mammalian cells. Expression of the proapoptotic proteins Bax and Bak conferred a lethal phenotype in this yeast, which was strongly suppressed by coexpression of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-XL. Bcl-2 also partially...
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