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Widely Used Mutants of eiger, Encoding the Drosophila Tumor Necrosis Factor, Carry Additional Mutations in the NimrodC1 Phagocytosis Receptor.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 3 Dec 2020
Kodra Albana, de la Cova Claire, Gerhold Abigail R, Johnston Laura A
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The process of apoptosis in epithelia involves activation of caspases, delamination of cells, and degradation of cellular components. Corpses and cellular debris are then rapidly cleared from the tissue by phagocytic blood cells. In studies of the Drosophila TNF, Eiger (Egr) and cell death in wing imaginal discs, the epithelial primordia of fly wings, we noticed that dying cells appeared to transiently accumulate...
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