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Mastoparan-induced programmed cell death in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Annals of botany - 1 Feb 2013
Yordanova Zhenya P, Woltering Ernst J, Kapchina-Toteva Veneta M, Iakimova Elena T
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Under stress-promoting conditions unicellular algae can undergo programmed cell death (PCD) but the mechanisms of algal cellular suicide are still poorly understood. In this work, the involvement of caspase-like proteases, DNA cleavage and the morphological occurrence of cell death in wasp venom mastoparan (MP)-treated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii were studied. METHODS: Algal cells were exposed...
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