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apoptotic process
Term Information
Accession
GO:0006915
Name
apoptotic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
apoptotic cell death, apoptotic programmed cell death, programmed cell death by apoptosis, apoptosis activator activity, caspase-dependent programmed cell death, commitment to apoptosis, induction of apoptosis, induction of apoptosis by p53, signaling (initiator) caspase activity, activation of apoptosis, apoptosis, apoptosis signaling, apoptotic program, type I programmed cell death, cell suicide, cellular suicide
Alternate IDs
GO:0006917, GO:0008632
Definition
A programmed cell death process which begins when a cell receives an internal (e.g. DNA damage) or external signal (e.g. an extracellular death ligand), and proceeds through a series of biochemical events (signaling pathway phase) which trigger an execution phase. The execution phase is the last step of an apoptotic process, and is typically characterized by rounding-up of the cell, retraction of pseudopodes, reduction of cellular volume (pyknosis), chromatin condensation, nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), plasma membrane blebbing and fragmentation of the cell into apoptotic bodies. When the execution phase is completed, the cell has died.
Source:
GOC:tb,
ISBN:0198506732,
PMID:21494263,
GOC:go_curators,
GOC:mtg_apoptosis,
GOC:cjm,
GOC:ecd,
PMID:18846107,
GOC:dhl
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