Shared developmental roles and transcriptional control of autophagy and apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1510-1518

  Erdélyi, Péter ^a   Borsos, Éva ^a   Takács Vellai, Krisztina ^a   Kovács, Tibor ^a   Kovács, Attila L ^a   Sigmond, Tímea ^a   Hargitai, Balázs ^a   Pásztor, Líz ^a   SenGupta, Tanima ^b   Dengg, Marlene ^b   Pécsi, Ildikó ^c   Tóth, Judit ^c   Nilsen, Hilde ^b   Vértessy, Beáta G ^c   Vellai, Tibor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENZYMOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; ATF 2; Autophagy; C. elegans; Early development

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BECLIN 1;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; LETHALITY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NEMATODE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79955674412     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.080192     Document Type: Article

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