Timing of the onset of a development cell death is controlled by transciptional induction of the C. elegans ced-3 caspase-encoding gene

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1357-1368

  Maurer, Carine W ^a   Chiorazzi, Michael ^a   Shaham, Shai ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Caspase; ced 3; Cell death onset; Tail spike cell

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BH3 PROTEIN; CASPASE; CED 3 CASPASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CED 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PAL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PAL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 34248180046     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02818     Document Type: Article

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