Publications by authors named "Natalia Horbach"
Article Synopsis
- Caspases are unique to animals, while metacaspases (MCAs) in plants are older and biochemically different molecules, with most research focusing on Arabidopsis and its nine MCAs.
- Researchers studied CrMCA-II, a type-II MCA from the chlorophyte Chlamydomonas, finding that it surprisingly dimerizes like caspases, and its activation corresponds with this dimerization.
- The deletion of CrMCA-II resulted in decreased heat tolerance and increased cell death in Chlamydomonas, but restoring CrMCA-II—either active or inactive—helped regain thermotolerance, linking its function to modulating plasma membrane fluidity rather than its proteolytic
