Living with death: The evolution of the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis in animals

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1139-1146

  Oberst, A ^a   Bender, C ^b,c   Green, D R ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 9; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYTOCHROME C; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45449083640     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2008.65     Document Type: Review

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