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Surprising complexity of the ancestral apoptosis network

Christian M Zmasek1* email, Qing Zhang1* email, Yuzhen Ye2 email and Adam Godzik1,3 email

Burnham Institute for Medical Research, North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

School of Informatics, Indiana University, E.10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2007, 8:R226doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r226

Published: 24 October 2007

Subject areas: Evolution, Genome studies, Bioinformatics


Additional files

Additional data file 1:

This phylogeny was calculated using a Bayesian approach (MrBayes) based on a MAFFT alignment of Peptidase_C14 domains. Posterior probability values are shown for each branch (for detailed information, see Materials and methods). Species abbreviations: BRAFL, Branchiostoma floridae (amphioxus); BRARE, Brachydanio rerio (zebrafish); CAEBR, Caenorhabditis briggsae; CAEEL, Caenorhabditis elegans; CANFA, Canis familiaris (dog); CHICK, Gallus gallus (chicken); CIOIN, Ciona intestinalis (sea squirt); DROME, Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly); FUGRU, Fugu rubripes (Japanese pufferfish); NEMVE, Nematostella vectensis (starlet sea anemone); STRPU, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (purple sea urchin); TETNG, Tetraodon nigroviridis (green pufferfish); and XENTR, Xenopus tropicalis (western clawed frog). For a detailed list of protein sequences see Additional data file 4. Para-caspases are excluded from this phylogeny.

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Additional data file 2:

Protein sequences for Figure 2 (phylogeny and domain organization of CED-4/Apaf-1 homologs).

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Additional data file 3:

Protein sequences for Figure 3 (phylogeny of the multi-motif Bcl-2 family).

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Additional data file 4:

Protein sequences for Additional data file 1 (phylogeny of the caspase family).

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