BH3-only protein BIM mediates heat shock-induced apoptosis.

Acute heat shock can induce apoptosis through a canonical pathway involving the upstream activation of caspase-2, followed by BID cleavage and stimulation of the intrinsic pathway. Herein, we report that the BH3-only protein BIM, rather than BID, is essential to heat shock-induced cell death. We obs...

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Main Authors: Indra M Mahajan, Miao-Der Chen, Israel Muro, John D Robertson, Casey W Wright, Shawn B Bratton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3888412?pdf=render