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Caenorhabditis

 
 
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Disease relevance of Caenorhabditis

  • A complementary DNA for the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP) produces a fluorescent product when expressed in prokaryotic (Escherichia coli) or eukaryotic (Caenorhabditis elegans) cells [1].
  • One of the candidate gene products, FEZ1 (fasciculation and elongation protein zeta-1), a protein kinase C (PKC)zeta-interacting protein homologous to the Caenorhabditis elegans synaptic transport protein UNC-76, was found to be up-regulated >30-fold in the resistant R3-2 line [2].
  • Genetic studies in Caenorhabditis elegans identified lin-9 to function together with the retinoblastoma homologue lin-35 in vulva differentiation [3].
  • The predicted Mep1p protein shares high sequence similarity with several bacterial proteins of unknown function, notably the product of the nitrogen-regulated nrgA gene of Bacillus subtilis, and with that of a partial cDNA sequence derived from Caenorhabditis elegans [4].
  • The threshold for polyglutamine-expansion protein aggregation and cellular toxicity is dynamic and influenced by aging in Caenorhabditis elegans [5].
 

Psychiatry related information on Caenorhabditis

 

High impact information on Caenorhabditis

  • Similarly, mutation of lin-2, a related MAGUK in Caenorhabditis elegans, blocks vulval development, and mutation of the postsynaptic density protein PSD-95 impairs synaptic plasticity in mammalian brain [10].
  • Here we show coordinate regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans fat storage by orthologues of these genes acting in ciliated neurons and by a 3-ketoacyl-coA thiolase (encoded by kat-1) that acts in fat storage tissue [11].
  • We report that Sir2 activation through increased sir-2.1 dosage or treatment with the sirtuin activator resveratrol specifically rescued early neuronal dysfunction phenotypes induced by mutant polyglutamines in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans [12].
  • Using isogenic populations of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, we show that, on the first day of adult life, chance variation in the level of induction of a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter coupled to a promoter from the gene hsp-16.2 predicts as much as a fourfold variation in subsequent survival [13].
  • In this issue of Cell, Norman, Maricq, and colleagues (Norman et al., 2005) show that VAV-1, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rho-family GTPases, is necessary for three rhythmic behaviors in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: feeding, defecation, and ovulation [14].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Caenorhabditis

 

Biological context of Caenorhabditis

 

Anatomical context of Caenorhabditis

 

Associations of Caenorhabditis with chemical compounds

  • To identify mechanisms responsible for intoxication, we screened for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants with altered behavioral responses to ethanol [29].
  • Disruption of dog-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans triggers deletions upstream of guanine-rich DNA [30].
  • The NH2-terminal 85 amino acids of Apaf-1 show 21% identity and 53% similarity to the NH2-terminal prodomain of the Caenorhabditis elegans caspase, CED-3 [31].
  • Food and metabolic signalling defects in a Caenorhabditis elegans serotonin-synthesis mutant [32].
  • In Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila, genetic studies have shown that Ras activation by tyrosine kinases requires the protein Sem-5/drk, which contains a single Src-homology (SH) 2 domain and two flanking SH3 domains [33].
 

Gene context of Caenorhabditis

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Caenorhabditis

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