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Nature Cell Biology 6, 804 - 806 (2004)
doi:10.1038/ncb0904-804

An Apollon vista of death and destruction

Seamus J. Martin1

  1. Seamus J. Martin is in the Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, Department of Genetics, The Smurfit Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. e-mail: martinsj@tcd.ie


Proteins containing the BIR motif have been implicated as regulators of apoptosis and cell division. Apollon, an exceptionally large BIR-containing protein, inhibits apoptosis by targeting key cell death proteins for destruction by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Now, deletion of apollon in the mouse has revealed a crucial function in cell division.

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