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Team:Warsaw/Glossary
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Glossary
apoptosis
Apoptosis is a natural process of programmed cell death. Apoptosis can be induced by many factors and its function is to remove damaged and unnecessary cells from the organism. In our project we want to induce apoptosis of tumor cells, using p53 or bax proteins, both involved in control of this process
bax
cro
cro-box
endosome
invasin
lacI
listeriolysin
mgtc promoter
p53
p53 is a protein well-known for people interested in cancer. p53 is a tumor suppressor and main factor involved in control of cell-cycle, mutated in more than half of tumors. Some data shows that presence of p53 in mitochondria is able to induce apoptosis.
