Multiple apoptotic caspase cascades are required in nonapoptotic roles for Drosophila spermatid individualization

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Huh, Jun R ^a   Vernooy, Stephanie Y ^a   Yu, Hong ^a   Yan, Nieng ^b   Shi, Yigong ^b   Guo, Ming ^c   Hay, Bruce A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CASPASE INHIBITOR; FAS ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; HEAD INVOLUTION DEFECTIVE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FAD7 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; LIGAND; NC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THREAD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; ENCAPSULATION; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYNCYTIUM; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

EID: 19344368275     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020015     Document Type: Article

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