Crosslinking BCR in the immature B cell line WEHI-231 causes apoptosis. We found that Bcl-xL was degraded by polyubiquitination upon BCR crosslinking and in this study explored the mechanism that controls the degradation of Bcl-xL. Ser(62) of Bcl-xL was phosphorylated by JNK to trigger polyubiquitination, and this was opposed by serine/threonine protein phosphatase 6 (PP6) that physically assoc...

The XL (eXtended Linearization) equation-solving algorithm belongs to the same extended family as the advanced Gröbner Bases methods F4/F5. XL and its relatives may be used as direct attacks against multivariate Public-Key Cryptosystems and as final stages for many “algebraic cryptanalysis” used today. We analyze the applicability and performance of XL and its relatives, particularly for generi...

We recently identified a new highly divergent Bcl-2 related protein, named Bcl-wav, with phylogenetic pattern restricted to aquatic anamniotes. In zebrafish gastrula, bclwav gene silencing resulted in calcium-dependent cytoskeleton remodeling leading to convergence and extension movements defaults and abnormal orientation of the larva notochord. Beyond its function in cell migration, Bcl-wav wa...

Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency (EDA-ID) is characterized according to its various manifestations, which include ectodermal dysplasia, vascular anomalies, osteopetrosis, and diverse immunological abnormalities such as susceptibility to pathogens, impaired antibody responses to polysaccharides, hypogammaglobulinemia, hyper-IgM syndrome, impaired natural killer cell cytotoxi...

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Bcl-xs is a dominant negative repressor of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, both of which inhibit apoptosis. We used a replication-deficient adenoviral vector to transiently overexpress Bcl-xs in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells, which overexpress Bcl-xL. Infection with this vector induced apoptosis in vitro. We then determined the effects of intratumoral injection of bcl-xs adenovirus on solid MCF-7 tumors in...

Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL are inhibitors of apoptosis frequently overexpressed in solid tumors. The bcl-2 and bcl-xL mRNAs share a region of homology comprising nucleotides 605-624 and 687-706, respectively, which differs by only three nucleotides. This sequence does not occur in the proapoptotic splice variant bcl-xS. To test the possibility that oligonucleotides targeting this region have the potentia...

D satellite RNA (satRNA) is a strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) satRNA that induces an epidemic lethal disease in tomato. No natural resistance or tolerance has ever been found. Previously, we demonstrated the involvement of programmed cell death in disease development. Here, transgenic tomato plants expressing animal antiapoptotic genes bcl-xL and ced-9 were generated through agrobacterium...

ABSTRACT
 The purpose of this study was to isolate and test its cytotoxic activity starting from extract fraction compound, then carried out molecular docking confirm the potential biological ligands (vocangine, vobtusine, vobtusine lactone) against inhibition proteins (Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, Mcl-1), activation protein Bax apoptotic execution Caspase-3. This research is an experimental quantitativ...