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The conservation and uniqueness of the caspase family in the basal chordate, amphioxus
2011
BMC Biology
The caspase family, which plays a central role in apoptosis in metazoans, has undergone an expansion in amphioxus, increasing to 45 members through domain recombination and shuffling. Results In order to shed light on the conservation and uniqueness of this family in amphioxus, we cloned three representative caspase genes, designated as bbtCaspase-8, bbtCaspase-1/2 and bbtCaspase3-like, from the amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense. We found that bbtCaspase-8 with conserved protein
doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-60
pmid:21933445
pmcid:PMC3196919
fatcat:6ta57kxfmvg43ile4rlikziybu