A specific pathway inducing autophagic cell death is marked by an IP3R mutation.

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Three main advantages make Dictyostelium a very favorable model to study the induction of autophagic cell death in vitro. First, its small, sequenced and haploid genome facilitates genetic approaches. Second, the Dictyostelium genome does not encode the two main molecular families involved in apoptosis (caspases and bcl-2 family), which therefore cannot interfere in this case with autophagic cell death. Third,...

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