Evidence that CED-9/Bcl2 and CED-4/Apaf-1 localization is not consistent with the current model for C. elegans apoptosis induction

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 406-415

  Pourkarimi, E ^a   Greiss, S ^a,b   Gartner, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apaf 1; apoptosis; Bcl 2; C. elegans; CED 4; CED 9

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BH3 PROTEIN; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN CED 3; PROTEIN CED 4; PROTEIN CED 9; PROTEIN EGL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROTECTION; EMBRYO; IONIZING RADIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RADIATION, IONIZING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857059879     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2011.104     Document Type: Article

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