Origin and evolution of eukaryotic apoptosis: The bacterial connection

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 394-404

  Koonin, E V ^a   Aravind, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Eukaryotic apoptosis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CASPASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PROTEIN HTRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOMYCES; APOPTOSIS; ARCHEAN; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; BACTERIA; CASPASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; FLAVOPROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036316720     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400991     Document Type: Review

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