From friend to foe: Pro-apoptotic action of nuclear ARC in diabetes

Summary

Apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain (ARC) is an established cytoplasmic anti-apoptotic factor relevant for cancer and metabolic disease. In this issue of Developmental Cell, McKimpson et al. show that ARC can assume potent pro-apoptotic effects in β cells of the endocrine pancreas via translocation to the...