Two pathways converge at CED-10 to mediate actin rearrangement and corpse removal in C. elegans

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7029, 2005, Pages 93-99

  Kinchen, Jason M ^a,b,d   Cabello, Juan ^c   Kilngele, Doris ^b   Wong, Kelvin ^b   Felchtinger, Richard ^e   Schnabel, Helnke ^f   Schnabel, Ralf ^c   Hengartner, Michael O ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e Xybermind GmbH   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; GROWTH KINETICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

APOPTOTIC CELLS; GENETIC PATHWAYS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE DYNAMICS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ACTIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; F ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HOE 33342; PROTEIN CED 1; PROTEIN CED 10; PROTEIN CED 12; PROTEIN CED 2; PROTEIN CED 5; PROTEIN CED 6; PROTEIN CED 7; PROTEIN CRKII; PROTEIN DOCK180; PROTEIN ELMO; RAC1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ABC TRANSPORTER; CED 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED 10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED 6 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED 7 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-6 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-7 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST; EMBRYO; HEAT SHOCK; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 14544290056     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03263     Document Type: Article

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