Evolution of apoptosis-like programmed cell death in unicellular protozoan parasites

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kaczanowski, Szymon ^a   Sajid, Mohammed ^b   Reece, Sarah E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CASPASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYTOCHROME C; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE G; FAS ANTIGEN; METACASPASE 1; METACASPASE 2; NUC1; NUCLEASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEN1;

APOPTOSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; BIOLOGY; LEISHMANIA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMA;

PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

APOPTOSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LEISHMANIA; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 79953111659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-44     Document Type: Review

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