Intrinsic apoptosis is evolutionarily divergent among metazoans
G. Krasovec, E. Qeinnec, J.-P. Chambon
The paper investigates the evolutionary divergence of intrinsic apoptosis pathways across metazoans, revealing that caspase-9 is deuterostome-specific while caspase-2 is ancestral to bilaterians.
bioRxiv · Dec 21, 2021Evolutionary Biology