The Caenorhabditis elegans pvl-5 Gene Protects Hypodermal Cells From ced-3-Dependent, ced-4-Independent Cell Death
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The Caenorhabditis elegans pvl-5 gene protects hypodermal cells from ced-3-dependent, ced-4-independent cell death.
Programmed cell death (PCD) is regulated by multiple evolutionarily conserved mechanisms to ensure the survival of the cell. Here we describe pvl-5, a gene that likely regulates PCD in Caenorhabditis elegans. In wild-type hermaphrodites at the L2 stage there are 11 Pn.p hypodermal cells in the ventral midline arrayed along the anterior-posterior axis and 6 of these cells become the vulval precu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.103.020503