BID-induced structural changes in BAK promote apoptosis.
Moldoveanu, T., Grace, C.R., Llambi, F., Nourse, A., Fitzgerald, P., Gehring, K., Kriwacki, R.W., Green, D.R.(2013) Nat Struct Mol Biol 20: 589-597
- PubMed: 23604079 
- DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2563
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2M5B - PubMed Abstract: 
The BCL-2-family protein BAK is responsible for mitochondrial outer-membrane permeabilization (MOMP), which leads to apoptosis. The BCL-2 homology 3 (BH3)-only protein BID activates BAK to perform this function. We report the NMR solution structure of the human BID BH3-BAK complex, which identified the activation site at the canonical BH3-binding groove of BAK ...