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Article Addendum
Autophagy and Cell-Death Proteases in Plants: Two Wheels of a Funeral Cart
Peter Bozhkov and Christer Jansson
volume 3 | issue 2
March/April 2007Pages: 136 - 138
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Apoptosis is an evolutionarily young cell-death strategy evolved to disassemble animal cells through the action of the caspase family of proteases and phagocytic clearance. This strategy does not work in plants, which instead feature a phylogenetically older autophagic programmed cell death (PCD), as a bona fide type of cellular suicide. Recent work has begun to address the mechanistic roles for autophagic and proteolytic components, as well as their possible cooperation in plant PCD. A recent study has shown autophagosomal localization of a key cell-death proteolytic activity at the early stage of plant PCD. Here we focus on the relationship between autophagic and proteoloytic components in plant PCD at the cellular and organismal levels.
Addendum to:
Developmental Regulation of a VEIDase Caspase-Like Proteolytic Activity in Barley Caryopsis
M. Borén, A.S. Höglund, P. Bozhkov and C. Jansson
J Exp Bot; In press
Authors
Peter Bozhkov
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christer Jansson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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