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Author(s): Reddien PW; Horvitz HR
Title: The engulfment process of programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans
Source: ANNUAL REVIEW OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 20: 193-221
Date: 2004 
Document Type: Journal : Review
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Language: English
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Address: Univ Utah, Sch Med, Dept Neurobiol & Anat, Salt Lake City, UT 84132 USA.
MIT, Dept Biol, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
Reprint: Reddien, PW, Univ Utah, Sch Med, Dept Neurobiol & Anat, Salt Lake City,
UT 84132 USA.
E-mail: reddien@neuro.utah.edu
horvitz@MIT.EDU
Author Keywords: phagocytosis; apoptosis; migration; Rac; signaling
KeyWords Plus: RECEPTOR-MEDIATED PHAGOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGE SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; ACTIN STRESS FIBERS; APOPTOTIC CELLS; C-ELEGANS; CORPSE ENGULFMENT; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE RECEPTOR; BINDING PROTEIN; IN-VIVO; MEMBRANE PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE
Abstract: Programmed cell death involves the removal of cell corpses by other cells in a process termed engulfment. Genetic studies of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have led to a framework not only for the killing step of programmed cell death but also for the process of cell-corpse engulfment. This work has defined two signal transduction pathways that act redundantly to control engulfment. Signals expressed by dying cells probably regulate these C. elegans pathways. Components of the cell-corpse recognition system of one of the C. elegans pathways include the CED-7 ABC transporter, which likely presents a death ligand on the surface of the dying cell; the CED-1 transmembrane receptor, which recognizes this signal; and the CED-6 adaptor protein, which may transduce a signal from CED-1. The second C. elegans pathway acts in parallel and involves a novel Rac GTPase signaling pathway, with the components CED-2 CrkII, CED-5 DOCK 180, CED-12 ELMO, and CED-10 Rac. The cell-corpse recognition system that activates this pathway remains to be characterized. In C. elegans, and possibly in mammals, the process of cell-corpse engulfment promotes the death process itself. The known mechanisms for cell-corpse engulfment leave much to be discovered concerning this fundamental aspect of metazoan biology.
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