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SUBMITTER: Egger L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2748804 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Egger L L Madden D T DT Rhême C C Rao R V RV Bredesen D E DE
Cell death and differentiation 20070330 6
Cells exposed to sustained endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress undergo programmed cell death and display features typical of apoptosis, such as cysteine aspartyl protease (caspase) activation, cytochrome c release, and DNA fragmentation. Here, we show that the execution of cell death induced by ER stress is mediated via the proteasome. Inhibition of the proteasome by lactacystin prevented ER stress-induced degradation of Bcl-2, release of cytochrome c, processing of effector caspase-3, and exposur ...[more]