Chapter 50, Problem 15TYK

Summary Introduction

To review:

The experiment would convince that the human BCL2 protein is functional homologous to the worm CED-9 protein.

Introduction:

The Drosophila members of the Bcl-2 gene family whose function is important for programmed cell death. The Bcl-2 family of proteins has grown to include more than twenty members of death-suppressing and promoting molecules found in the genomes of worms, mammals, viruses, and flies. Likewise, cell death abnormality gene 9 (CED-9), is a gene found in Caenorhabditis elegans that inhibits or represses programmed cell death (apoptosis). It is also known as apoptosis regulator CED-9.