Watanabe, M., Shirayoshi, Y., Koshimizu, U., Hashimoto, S., Yonehara, S., Eguchi, Y., Tsujimoto, Y. and Nakatsuji, N.: Gene transfection of mouse primordial germ cells in vitro and analysis of their survival and growth control. Exp. Cell Res. 230, 76-83, 1997

Takahashi, T., Honda, H., Hirai, H. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Overexpression of Bcl-xL prevents bacterial superantigen-induced apoptosis of thymocytes in vitro. Cell Death & Differ. 4, 159-165, 1997

Tanabe, H., Eguchi, Y., Kamada, S., Martinou, J.-C. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Susceptibility of cerebellar granule neurons derived from bcl-2-deficient and transgenic mice to cell death. Eur. J. Neurosci., 9, 848-856, 1997

Yasuhara, N., Eguchi, Y., Tachibana, T., Imamoto, N., Yoneda, Y. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Essential role of active nuclear transport in apoptosis. Genes to Cells, 2, 55-64, 1997

Paumen, M. B., Ishida, Y., Han, H., Muramatsu, M., Eguchi, Y., Tsujimoto, Y. and Honjo, T.: Direct interaction of the mitochondrial membrane protein carnitine palmitoyltransferase I with Bcl-2. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 231, 523-525, 1997

Shigenaga, A., Funahashi, Y., Kimura, K., Kobayakawa, Y., Kamada, S., Tsujimoto, Y. and Tanimura, T.: Targeted expression of ced-3 and Ice induces programmed cell death in Drosophila. Cell Death & Differ. 4, 371-377, 1997

Eguchi, Y., Shimizu, S. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Intracellular ATP levels determine cell death fate by apoptosis or necrosis. Cancer Res. 57, 1835-1840, 1997

Kamada, S., Funahashi, Y. and Tsujimoto, Y. Caspase-4 and caspase-5, members of the ICE/CED-3 family of cystein proteases, are CrmA-inhibitable proteases. Cell Death & Differ. 4, 473-478, 1997

Shigenaga, A., Kimura, K., Kobayakawa, Y., Tsujimoto, Y. and Tanimura, T.: Cell ablation by ectopic expression of cell death genes, ced-3 and Ice in Drosophila. Develop. Growth Differ. 39, 429-436, 1997

Kamada, S., Washida, M., Hasegawa, J., Kusano, H., Funahashi, Y. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Involvement of caspase-4(-like) protease in Fas-mediated apoptotic pathway. Oncogene, 15, 285-290, 1997

Ohtsu, M., Sakai, N., Fujita, H., Kashiwagi, M., Gasa, S., Shimizu, S., Eguchi, Y., Tsujimoto, Y., Sakiyama, Y., Kobayashi, K. and Kuzumaki, N.: Inhibition of apoptosis by the actin-regulatory protein gelsolin. EMBO J. 16, 4650-4656, 1997

Yasuhara, N., Sahara, S., Kamada, S. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Evidence against a functional site for Bcl-2 downstream of caspase cascade in preventing apoptosis. Oncogene, 15, 1921-1928, 1997

Kitanaka, C., Namiki, T., Noguchi, K., Mochizuki, T., Kagaya, S., Chi, S., Hayashi, A., Asai, A., Tsujimoto, Y. and Kuchino, Y.: Caspase-dependent apoptosis of COS-7 cells induced by Bax overexpression: differential effects of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL on Bax-induced caspase activation and apoptosis. Oncogene,15, 1763-1772, 1997

Tsujimoto, Y.: Apoptosis and necrosis: Intracellular ATP level as a determinant for cell death modes. Cell Death & Differ. 4, 429-434, 1997

Kagaya, S., Kitanaka, C., Noguchi, K., Mochizuki, T., Sugiyama, A., Asai, A., Yasuhara, N., Eguchi, Y., Tsujimoto, Y. and Kuchino, Y.: A functional role for death proteases in s-Myc- and c-Myc-mediated apoptosis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17, 6739-6745, 1997

Iwahashi, H., Eguchi, Y., Yasuhara, N., Hanafusa, T., Matsuzawa, Y. and Tsujimoto, Y.: Synergistic anti-apoptotic activity between Bcl-2 and SMN implicated in spinal muscular atrophy. Nature, 390, 413-417, 1997