Sporoptosis: sowing the seeds of nuclear destruction

Lior Aram; Eli Arama

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2012.06.016

Sporoptosis: sowing the seeds of nuclear destruction

Dev Cell. 2012 Jul 17;23(1):5-6. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.06.016.

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Lior Aram¹, Eli Arama

Affiliation

¹ Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

PMID: 22814596
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.06.016

Abstract

What are the origins of programmed cell death (PCD)? In this issue of Developmental Cell, Eastwood et al. (2012) uncover an ancient developmental program of nuclear destruction in yeast, implying that some PCD mechanisms could have emerged from nonlethal processes before the divergence of fungi and metazoan.

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