title: Stopping death cold.
abstract: The three-dimensional structure of Bcl-xL, an inhibitor of apoptosis, suggests how different combinations of proteins in the same family might be utilized to control apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0505, USA.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Werner
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D020170:Caspase 1; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000502:physiology; D004249:DNA Damage; D019281:Dimerization; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D064549:Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein; D051020:bcl-X Protein; D019014:fas Receptor / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: C494811:BCL2L1 protein, human; D064549:Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein; D051020:bcl-X Protein; D019014:fas Receptor; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D020170:Caspase 1