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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1997//729 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 139, Number 3, , 1997 729-734


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A Yeast Mutant Showing Diagnostic Markers of Early and Late Apoptosis



Frank Madeo*, Eleonore Fröhlich{ddagger}, and Kai-Uwe Fröhlich*

* Physiologisch-chemisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; and {ddagger} Anatomisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, 72072 Tübingen, Germany

A Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant in cell division cycle gene CDC48 shows typical markers of apoptosis: membrane staining with annexin V, indicating an exposure of phosphatidylserine at the outer layer of the cytoplasmic membrane; intense staining, using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase–mediated dUTP nick end labeling method, indicating DNA fragmentation; and chromatin condensation and fragmentation. The coordinate occurrence of these events at different locations in the cell, which have no obvious connection except their relation to apoptosis, implies the presence of the molecular machinery performing the basic steps of apoptosis already in yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae may prove a suitable model to trace the roots of apoptosis.


Abbreviations used in this paper: ICE, IL-1β–converting enzyme; TUNEL, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase–mediated dUTP nick end labeling.

Address all correspondence to Kai-Uwe Fröhlich, Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut, Hoppe-Seyler-Strasse 4, Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Tel.: 49-7071-297-3360. Fax: 49-7071-296-6390. E-mail: kaifr{at}uni-tuebingen.de



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