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PLOS ONE
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009066
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- La Ligue Contre le Cancer (Comites de la Drome et du Rhone)
- Fondation d'Entreprise SILAB -Jean PAUFIQUE
- Spanish MEC [BFU2007-67097]
- EGIDE PHC PICASSO [17092SM]
- MEC [HF2007-0090]
- MRT
- La Region Rhone-Alpes
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Background: The BCL-2 family of proteins includes pro-and antiapoptotic members acting by controlling the permeabilization of mitochondria. Although the association of these proteins with the outer mitochondrial membrane is crucial for their function, little is known about the characteristics of this interaction. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here, we followed a reductionist approach to clarify to what extent membrane-active regions of homologous BCL-2 family proteins contribute to their functional divergence. Using isolated mitochondria as well as model lipid Langmuir monolayers coupled with Brewster Angle Microscopy, we explored systematically and comparatively the membrane activity and membrane-peptide interactions of fragments derived from the central helical hairpin of BAX, BCL-xL and BID. The results show a connection between the differing abilities of the assayed peptide fragments to contact, insert, destabilize and porate membranes and the activity of their cognate proteins in programmed cell death. Conclusion/Significance: BCL-2 family-derived pore-forming helices thus represent structurally analogous, but functionally dissimilar membrane domains.
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