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Nature Cell Biology 8, 1317 - 1319 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ncb1206-1317

Upgrading the BCL-2 Network

Heidi L. Galonek1 & J. Marie Hardwick1

  1. Heidi L. Galonek and J. Marie Hardwick are in the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. e-mail: hardwick@jhu.edu


The BCL-2 oncogene promotes cancer progression by prohibiting cell death. BCL-2-related regulators were once thought to constitute a simple, two-class system of anti-death and pro-death factors. New data delineate a multistep hierarchy of BCL-2-family protein interactions that are driven by signal-dependent pathways.

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