Programmed Cell Death

Stable Identifier
R-HSA-5357801
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Pathway
Species
Homo sapiens
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5/5
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Cell death is a fundamental cellular response that has a crucial role in shaping our bodies during development and in regulating tissue homeostasis by eliminating unwanted cells. There are a number of different forms of cell death, each with a corresponding number of complex subprocesses. The first form of regulated or programmed cell death to be characterized was apoptosis. Evidence has emerged for a number of regulated non-apoptotic cell death pathways, including some with morphological features that were previously attributed to necrosis. More recently necrosis has been subdivided into parts including programmed necrotic cell death processes, such as RIP1-mediated regulated necrosis or pyroptosis.
Reactome currently represents programmed cell death using the model of extrinsic signalling that leads to a molecular decision point pivoting on caspase-8 activation or inhibition. Caspase-8 activation tilts the cell towards apoptosis, while caspase-8 inhibition tilts the cell towards Regulated Necrosis.

The terminology and molecular definitions of cell death-related events annotated here are consistent with the 2015 recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death (NCCD) (Galluzzi L et al. 2015).

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PubMed ID Title Journal Year
25236395 Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

Szabadkai, G, Kepp, O, Nunez, G, Aaronson, SA, Bredesen, DE, Abrams, JM, Mizushima, N, Vandenabeele, P, Shi, Y, Vanden Berghe, T, Kumar, S, Alnemri, ES, Dawson, TM, Dynlacht, BD, Kaufmann, T, Dawson, VL, Oberst, A, Piacentini, M, Di Daniele, N, Muñoz-Pinedo, C, Lugli, E, Malorni, W, Rudel, T, Bianchi, K, Chandel, NS, Tait, SW, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli, M, Chipuk, JE, Fimia, GM, Linkermann, A, Knight, RA, Meier, P, Adam, D, Wagner, EF, Zakeri, Z, Levine, B, Medema, JP, Stockwell, BR, Gronemeyer, H, Borner, C, Hengartner, MO, Rizzuto, R, Cidlowski, JA, Moll, U, Pinton, P, Hardwick, JM, Green, DR, Blagosklonny, MV, Tang, HL, Galluzzi, L, Simon, HU, Altucci, L, Flavell, RA, Jost, PJ, Peter, ME, Martin, SJ, Chan, FK, Marine, JC, Dixit, VM, Ciechanover, A, López-Otin, C, Ichijo, H, Kroemer, G, Cheng, EH, Campanella, M, Panaretakis, T, Zhivotovsky, B, Lemasters, JJ, Lockshin, RA, Bravo-San Pedro, JM, Andrews, D, Candi, E, Joseph, B, Rodrigues, CM, Vitale, I, Debatin, KM, Tavernarakis, N, Madeo, F, Lipton, SA, White, E, Melino, G, Ravichandran, KS, Rabinovich, GA, Prehn, JH, Walczak, H, Wood, WG, Garrido, C, Gougeon, ML, Puthalakath, H, Klionsky, DJ, Cecconi, F, Brenner, C, Blomgren, K, Bertrand, MJ, Penninger, JM, Fulda, S, Baehrecke, EH, el-Deiry, WS, Tsujimoto, Y, De Laurenzi, V, Yuan, J, Hajnóczky, G, Melino, S, De Maria, R, Villunger, A, Rubinsztein, DC, Martinou, JC, Bazan, NG

Cell Death Differ. 2015
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