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Nature Cell Biology 1, E123 - E124 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12953
The Third Horseman takes wing
Kristin White1
- Kristin White is at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.
Correspondence to: Kristin White1 e-mail: kristin.white@CBRC2.MGH.Harvard.edu
Abstract
The identification of a Drosophila homologue of the nematode cell-death protein CED-4 indicates a role for the apoptosome — a complex consisting of CED-4, CED-3 and CED-9 — in developmental cell deaths in Drosophila.
