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Nature Cell Biology 7, 645 - 646 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb0705-645

A central role for S-nitrosylation in apoptosis

Moran Benhar1 & Jonathan S. Stamler1

  1. Moran Benhar and Jonathan S. Stamler are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Room 321 MSRB, Box 2612, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. e-mail: STAML001@mc.duke.edu


New work reveals a key signal transduction pathway through which nitric oxide (NO) regulates apoptosis induced by disparate cellular stresses. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is S-nitrosylated by NO, which initiates an interaction with the E3 ligase Siah1, leading to nuclear translocation and ubiquitin-mediated degradation of nuclear target proteins.

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