ced-5

Summary

Gene Symbol: ced-5
Description: hypothetical protein
Species: Caenorhabditis elegans

Top Publications

  1. Ellis R, Jacobson D, Horvitz H. Genes required for the engulfment of cell corpses during programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 1991;129:79-94 pubmed
    ..These observations suggest that these two sets of genes are involved in distinct and partially redundant processes that act in the engulfment of cell corpses...
  2. Wu Y, Horvitz H. C. elegans phagocytosis and cell-migration protein CED-5 is similar to human DOCK180. Nature. 1998;392:501-4 pubmed
    ..We name this new family of proteins that function in the extension of cell surfaces the CDM (for CED-5, DOCK180 and MBC) family. ..
  3. Reddien P, Horvitz H. CED-2/CrkII and CED-10/Rac control phagocytosis and cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat Cell Biol. 2000;2:131-6 pubmed
    ..We propose that CED-2/CrkII and CED-5/DOCK180 function to activate CED-10/Rac in a GTPase signalling pathway that controls the polarized extension of cell surfaces. ..
  4. Gumienny T, Brugnera E, Tosello Trampont A, Kinchen J, Haney L, Nishiwaki K, et al. CED-12/ELMO, a novel member of the CrkII/Dock180/Rac pathway, is required for phagocytosis and cell migration. Cell. 2001;107:27-41 pubmed
    ..These studies identify CED-12/ELMO as an upstream regulator of Rac1 that affects engulfment and cell migration from C. elegans to mammals. ..
  5. Zhou Z, Caron E, Hartwieg E, Hall A, Horvitz H. The C. elegans PH domain protein CED-12 regulates cytoskeletal reorganization via a Rho/Rac GTPase signaling pathway. Dev Cell. 2001;1:477-89 pubmed
    ..We propose that through interactions with membranes and with a CED-2/CED-5 protein complex, CED-12 regulates Rho/Rac GTPase signaling and leads to cytoskeletal reorganization by an evolutionarily conserved mechanism. ..
  6. Wang X, Wu Y, Fadok V, Lee M, Gengyo Ando K, Cheng L, et al. Cell corpse engulfment mediated by C. elegans phosphatidylserine receptor through CED-5 and CED-12. Science. 2003;302:1563-6 pubmed
    ..Our findings suggest that PSR-1 is likely an upstream receptor for the signaling pathway containing CED-2, CED-5, CED-10, and CED-12 proteins and plays an important role in recognizing phosphatidylserine during phagocytosis. ..
  7. Lu M, Kinchen J, Rossman K, Grimsley C, deBakker C, Brugnera E, et al. PH domain of ELMO functions in trans to regulate Rac activation via Dock180. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004;11:756-62 pubmed
    ..These data reveal a new mode of action of PH domains and a novel, evolutionarily conserved mechanism by which a bipartite GEF can activate Rac. ..
  8. Akakura S, Kar B, Singh S, Cho L, Tibrewal N, Sanokawa Akakura R, et al. C-terminal SH3 domain of CrkII regulates the assembly and function of the DOCK180/ELMO Rac-GEF. J Cell Physiol. 2005;204:344-51 pubmed
    ..Studies with W276K CrkII may offer a unique opportunity to study the structure and function of the DOCK180/ELMO Rac-GEF. ..
  9. Denning D, Hatch V, Horvitz H. Programmed elimination of cells by caspase-independent cell extrusion in C. elegans. Nature. 2012;488:226-30 pubmed publisher
    ..Our findings reveal a mechanism for apoptotic cell elimination that is fundamentally distinct from that of canonical programmed cell death. ..

More Information

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  1. Chen Y, Mapes J, Lee E, Skeen Gaar R, Xue D. Caspase-mediated activation of Caenorhabditis elegans CED-8 promotes apoptosis and phosphatidylserine externalization. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2726 pubmed publisher
    ..elegans. Our finding identifies a crucial link between caspase activation and PS externalization, which triggers phagocytosis of apoptotic cells. ..
  2. Cabello J, Neukomm L, Günesdogan U, Burkart K, Charette S, Lochnit G, et al. The Wnt pathway controls cell death engulfment, spindle orientation, and migration through CED-10/Rac. PLoS Biol. 2010;8:e1000297 pubmed publisher
    ..Taken together, our results indicate that in multiple developmental processes, CED-10/Rac can link polar signals mediated by the Wnt pathway to rearrangements of the cytoskeleton. ..
  3. Sawyer J, Glass S, Li T, Shemer G, White N, Starostina N, et al. Overcoming redundancy: an RNAi enhancer screen for morphogenesis genes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2011;188:549-64 pubmed publisher
    ..Our results implicate new genes in C. elegans gastrulation, and they show that an RNAi-based enhancer screen in C. elegans can be used as an efficient means to identify important but redundant or partially redundant developmental genes. ..
  4. Wu Y, Tsai M, Cheng L, Chou C, Weng N. C. elegans CED-12 acts in the conserved crkII/DOCK180/Rac pathway to control cell migration and cell corpse engulfment. Dev Cell. 2001;1:491-502 pubmed
    ..We suggest that CED-12 counterparts in higher organisms regulate cytoskeleton dynamics, as CED-12 does in C. elegans. ..
  5. Neukomm L, Nicot A, Kinchen J, Almendinger J, Pinto S, Zeng S, et al. The phosphoinositide phosphatase MTM-1 regulates apoptotic cell corpse clearance through CED-5-CED-12 in C. elegans. Development. 2011;138:2003-14 pubmed publisher
    ..Finally, we show that the CED-12 PH domain can bind to PtdIns(3,5)P(2) (one target of MTM-1 phosphatase activity), suggesting that MTM-1 might regulate CED-12 recruitment to the plasma membrane. ..
  6. Kang Y, Xu J, Liu Y, Sun J, Sun D, Hu Y, et al. Crystal structure of the cell corpse engulfment protein CED-2 in Caenorhabditis elegans. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2011;410:189-94 pubmed publisher
    ..However, CED-2 was found to interact with the N-terminal region of CED-5. Our findings suggest that CED-2 may regulate cell corpse engulfment by interacting with CED-5 through the N-terminal region rather than the PXXP motif. ..
  7. Grimsley C, Kinchen J, Tosello Trampont A, Brugnera E, Haney L, Lu M, et al. Dock180 and ELMO1 proteins cooperate to promote evolutionarily conserved Rac-dependent cell migration. J Biol Chem. 2004;279:6087-97 pubmed
    ..This finding suggests that Rac activation by the ELMO.Dock180 complex at discrete intracellular locations mediated by the N-terminal 330 amino acids of ELMO1 rather than generalized Rac activation plays a role in cell migration. ..