Programmed cell death during Caenorhabditis elegans development

Genetics

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1533-1562

  Conradt, Barbara ^a   Wu, Yi Chun ^b,c   Xue, Ding ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation phase; Caenorhabditis elegans; Execution phase; Programmed cell death; Specification phase; WormBook

Indexed keywords

ABL 1 PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CASPASE; CED 1 PROTEIN; CED 12 PROTEIN; CED 3 PROTEIN; CED 5 PROTEIN; CED 6 PROTEIN; CED 7 PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; EGL 1 PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LIPID; MTM 1 PROTEIN; NSM PROTEIN; PAT 2 PROTEIN; PAT 3 PROTEIN; PDR 1 PROTEIN; PGRN 1 PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RAB PROTEIN; RID PROTEIN; SLI 1 PROTEIN; SRGP 1 PROTEIN; SWAN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CED-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-9 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PROTEIN BCL 2; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; AUTOPHAGY; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DEATH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLEARANCE; COMPANION CELL; DIGESTION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITE; HUMAN; MACHINE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURVIVAL FACTOR; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASPASES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84981537792     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.186247     Document Type: Article

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