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[InstanceEdit:109608] Alnemri, E, Hengartner, Michael, Tschopp, Jürg, Tsujimoto, Yoshihide, Hardwick, JM, 2004-01-16
created
[InstanceEdit:109608] Alnemri, E, Hengartner, Michael, Tschopp, Jürg, Tsujimoto, Yoshihide, Hardwick, JM, 2004-01-16
dbId
109581
displayName
Apoptosis
edited
[InstanceEdit:165111] Gopinathrao, G, Matthews, L, Gillespie, ME, Joshi-Tope, G, 0000-00-00 00:00:00
eventOf
[TopLevelPathway:R-HSA-5357801] Programmed Cell Death - Homo sapiens
figure
[Figure:9628944] /figures/ehld/R-HSA-109581.svg
goBiologicalProcess
[GO_BiologicalProcess:2273] apoptotic process
hasDiagram
true
hasEHLD
true
hasEvent
[Pathway:R-HSA-5357769] Caspase activation via extrinsic apoptotic signalling pathway - Homo sapiens
[Pathway:R-HSA-109606] Intrinsic Pathway for Apoptosis - Homo sapiens
[Pathway:R-HSA-75153] Apoptotic execution phase - Homo sapiens
[Pathway:R-HSA-169911] Regulation of Apoptosis - Homo sapiens
isInDisease
false
isInferred
false
lastUpdatedDate
2022-06-09
literatureReference
[LiteratureReference:141229] Apoptosis and disease: a life or death decision
[LiteratureReference:141235] Apoptosis: a basic biological phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics
[LiteratureReference:141241] History of the events leading to the formulation of the apoptosis concept
[LiteratureReference:140372] Ways of dying: multiple pathways to apoptosis.
[LiteratureReference:140368] The Bcl-2 family: roles in cell survival and oncogenesis.
[LiteratureReference:141074] Targeting death and decoy receptors of the tumour-necrosis factor superfamily
[LiteratureReference:140546] The Bcl2 family: regulators of the cellular life-or-death switch
maxDepth
7
modified
[InstanceEdit:11108703] Weiser, Joel, 2026-03-16
name
Apoptosis
orthologousEvent
[Pathway:R-CFA-109581] Apoptosis - Canis familiaris
[Pathway:R-BTA-109581] Apoptosis - Bos taurus
[Pathway:R-SSC-109581] Apoptosis - Sus scrofa
[Pathway:R-DRE-109581] Apoptosis - Danio rerio
[Pathway:R-XTR-109581] Apoptosis - Xenopus tropicalis
[Pathway:R-GGA-109581] Apoptosis - Gallus gallus
[Pathway:R-DME-109581] Apoptosis - Drosophila melanogaster
[Pathway:R-CEL-109581] Apoptosis - Caenorhabditis elegans
[Pathway:R-DDI-109581] Apoptosis - Dictyostelium discoideum
[Pathway:R-SPO-109581] Apoptosis - Schizosaccharomyces pombe
[Pathway:R-SCE-109581] Apoptosis - Saccharomyces cerevisiae
[Pathway:R-PFA-109581] Apoptosis - Plasmodium falciparum
[Pathway:R-RNO-109581] Apoptosis - Rattus norvegicus
[Pathway:R-MMU-109581] Apoptosis - Mus musculus
releaseDate
2004-09-20
reviewStatus
[ReviewStatus:9821382] five stars
reviewed
[InstanceEdit:165110] Hengartner, M, Ranganathan, S, Vaux, D, 0000-00-00 00:00:00
schemaClass
Pathway
species
[Species:48887] Homo sapiens
stId
R-HSA-109581
summation
[Summation:109577] Apoptosis is a distinct form of cell death that is functiona...
updateTrackers
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Referrals
(hasEvent)
[TopLevelPathway:R-HSA-5357801] Programmed Cell Death
(hasEncapsulatedEvent)
[Pathway:R-HSA-168164] Toll Like Receptor 3 (TLR3) Cascade
[Pathway:R-HSA-5213460] RIPK1-mediated regulated necrosis
[Pathway:R-HSA-166166] MyD88-independent TLR4 cascade
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[UpdateTracker:9778663] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v68:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9779816] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v64:[updateContainedPathway, updateIndirectRLE]
[UpdateTracker:9790829] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v32:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9785729] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v51:[add_removeHasEvent, updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9782983] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v58:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9790785] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v33:[removeHasEvent, updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9792165] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v23:[removeHasEvent, updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9791920] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v25:[addHasEvent, updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9782435] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v59:[updateIndirectRLE]
[UpdateTracker:9789347] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v38:[addLiteratureReference, updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9774761] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v81:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9780496] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v63:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9786742] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v48:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9785199] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v52:[add_removeHasEvent]
[UpdateTracker:9779664] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v65:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9777652] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v70:[updateContainedPathway]
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[UpdateTracker:9791959] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v24:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9787781] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v44:[updateContainedPathway, updateIndirectRLE]
[UpdateTracker:9778782] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v67:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9786531] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v49:[updateContainedPathway]
[UpdateTracker:9789557] Update Tracker - [Pathway:109581] Apoptosis - v37:[updateContainedPathway]
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