• Biology, Medicine
• Published in Journal of virology 2000
• DOI:10.1128/JVI.74.16.7470-7477.2000

Induction of necrotic-like cell death by tumor necrosis factor alpha and caspase inhibitors: novel mechanism for killing virus-infected cells.

@article{Li2000InductionON,
  title={Induction of necrotic-like cell death by tumor necrosis factor alpha and caspase inhibitors: novel mechanism for killing virus-infected cells.},
  author={M Li and Amer A. Beg},
  journal={Journal of virology},
  year={2000},
  volume={74 16},
  pages={
          7470-7
        }
}

• M Li, Amer A. Beg

Induction of apoptotic cell death generally requires the participation of cysteine proteases belonging to the caspase family. However, and similar to most cell types, mouse fibroblasts are normally resistant to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced apoptosis. Surprisingly, TNF-alpha treatment of vaccinia virus-infected mouse fibroblasts resulted in necrotic-like cell death, which was significantly reduced in cells infected with a vaccinia virus mutant lacking the caspase inhibitor… CONTINUE READING

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