Loss of the RhoGAP SRGP-1 promotes the clearance of dead and injured cells in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-86

  Neukomm, Lukas J ^a,f   Frei, Andreas P ^a,g   Cabello, Juan ^b,c   Kinchen, Jason M ^d   Zaidel Bar, Ronen ^e   Ma, Zhong ^d   Haney, Lisa B ^d   Hardin, Jeff ^e   Ravichandran, Kodi S ^d   Moreno, Sergio ^b   Hengartner, Michael O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH OF LA RIOJA CIBIR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SLIT ROBO GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 78650512821     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2138     Document Type: Article

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