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MICROBES AND INFECTION
Volume 16, Issue 10, Pages 805-810Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2014.08.009
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ER-stress; Apoptosis; Bcl-2; Infection
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [FOR2036]
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During ER-stress, one of the responses a cell can choose is apoptosis. Apoptosis generally is a cell's preferred response when other control mechanisms are overwhelmed. We now have a reasonably clear molecular picture what is happening once the apoptotic apparatus has been started. Unclear however are the majority of the upstream pathways that connect other signalling to apoptosis. During ER-stress, confirmed apoptosis-regulating targets are pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins of the Bcl-2-family, whose concerted action induces apoptosis. I will here discuss how mitochondrial apoptosis is triggered, how this is linked to the ER-stress response and in what way this may be relevant during microbial infections. (C) 2014 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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