Functional conservation of the apoptotic machinery from coral to man: The diverse and complex Bcl-2 and caspase repertoires of Acropora millepora

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Moya, Aurelie ^a   Sakamaki, Kazuhiro ^b   Mason, Benjamin M ^a   Huisman, Lotte ^a,c   Forêt, Sylvain ^a,d   Weiss, Yvonne ^a   Bull, Tara E ^a   Tomii, Kentaro ^e   Imai, Kenichiro ^e   Hayward, David C ^d   Ball, Eldon E ^a,d   Miller, David J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acropora millepora; Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Caspase; Cnidaria; Coral

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 8; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 84954409294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2355-x     Document Type: Article

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