To fuse and to protect. A novel role for CED-9 in mitochondrial morphology reveals an ancient function.

摘要

Imagine that while walking in your Campus behind an old, gigantic tree you find the Magic Lamp; imagine that the Genius of the Lamp is willing to satisfy only one of your (many) desires; imagine that you are a scientist, that you are working on apoptosis, more specifically on the role of mitochondria in cell death. Well, won't you ask the Genius to let you know 'Why and when'? Why did Nature choose mitochondria as the main actor of programmed cell death, and when during evolution this happened?