MOLECULES CAPABLE OF INDUCING CELL DEATH BY TARGETING THE MITOCHONDRIA AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF

摘要

The invention relates to the use of derivatives of the membrane insertion regions of proteins of the Bcl-2 family to induce cell death by targeting the mitochondria, characterised in that said derivatives are peptides belonging to regions α5 and/or α6 of the Bax protein or equivalent regions found in the other proteins of the Bcl-2 family.