| Literature DB >> 23979019 |
Guillermo Mariño1, Guido Kroemer.
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It has been a long-standing enigma which scramblase causes phosphatidylserine residues to be exposed on the surface of apoptotic cells, thereby facilitating the phagocytic recognition, engulfment and destruction of apoptotic corpses. In a recent paper in Science, Nagata and coworkers reveal that the scramblases Xkr8 and its C. elegans ortholog, CED-8, are activated by caspase cleavage in apoptotic cells.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23979019 PMCID: PMC3817543 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2013.115
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617