Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Structural insight into the molecular mechanism of p53-mediated mitochondrial apoptosis

  • Hudie Wei,
  • Lingzhi Qu,
  • Shuyan Dai,
  • Yun Li,
  • Haolan Wang,
  • Yilu Feng,
  • Xiaojuan Chen,
  • Longying Jiang,
  • Ming Guo,
  • Jun Li,
  • Zhuchu Chen,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Yongheng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22655-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The structure of human tumor suppressor p53 in complex with the antiapoptotic protein BCL-xL reveals the basis of the p53–BCL-xL interaction and provides insight into the mechanisms of p53-mediated mitochondrial apoptosis.