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    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Oct 26;96(22):12667-72.

    LFG: an anti-apoptotic gene that provides protection from Fas-mediated cell death.

    Somia NV, Schmitt MJ, Vetter DE, Van Antwerp D, Heinemann SF, Verma IM.

    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

    Programmed cell death regulates a number of biological phenomena, and the apoptotic signal must itself be tightly controlled to avoid inappropriate cell death. We established a genetic screen to search for molecules that inhibit the apoptotic signal from the Fas receptor. Here we report the isolation of a gene, LFG, that protects cells uniquely from Fas but not from the mechanistically related tumor necrosis factor alpha death signal. LFG is widely distributed, but remarkably is highly expressed in the hippocampus. LFG can bind to the Fas receptor, but does not regulate Fas expression or interfere with binding of an agonist antibody. Furthermore LFG does not inhibit binding of FADD to Fas.

    PMID: 10535980 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 23041

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