Overexpression of eif-3.K or ced-3 in cell death-defective mutants.

aTransgenic animals were subjected to heat-shock (+) or left at 20°C (−).bTransgenic embryos were scored for the number of cell corpses 1.5 hrs after heat shock (see Materials and methods). Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation from two independent stably transmitting lines.cGreater than 20 embryos were analyzed from each line except for 1.5-fold embryos carrying Phspced-3 (n≥8) after heat shock due to high lethality.The transgenic embryos after heat shock were compared to the corresponding transgenic embryos without heat shock. All comparisons were performed using the unpaired t test (*P