DNA fragmentation involved in apoptosis

Term Information

Accession
GO:0006309
Ontology
biological process
Synonyms
alt_id: GO:0008178
exact: DNA catabolic process during apoptosis
exact: DNA catabolism during apoptosis
exact: endonucleolytic DNA catabolic process involved in apoptosis
broad: DNA fragmentation
Definition
The cleavage of DNA during apoptosis, which usually occurs in two stages: cleavage into fragments of about 50 kbp followed by cleavage between nucleosomes to yield 200 bp fragments. [source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0721639976]
Comment
None
Subset
None
Community
There have been 0 comments for this term. If you would like to view or participate in the community annotation, please continue to the GONUTS page.

Back to top

Term Lineage

Switch to viewing term parents, siblings and children

Filter tree view help!
Filter Gene Product Counts
View Options

Tree view


Back to top

External References

toggle InterPro (1)
toggle Pfam (1)
toggle Reactome (6)

Back to top