ced3
Foreign sequence; species == Caenorhabditis elegans; gene == ced-3; WP:C48D1.2 ; UniProt:P42573.
Overexpression of Cele\ced-9 or BacA\p35 significantly reduces cell death induced by Cele\ced-3 in SL2 cells.
A mechanism of programmed cell death controlled by CED-3/ICE is conserved among widely divergent animal species including Drosophila, and the system provides a tool to dissect cell death mechanism of CED-3/ICE proteases.
Cele\ced-3 can elicit cell death in various cells types. The Cele\ced-3 expression pattern corresponds to the region where the resulting morphological defect is observed.