The immunoglobulin superfamily protein SYG-1 determines the location of specific synapses in C. elegans
Article Abstract:
Results indicate that postsynaptic neurons and muscles are not involved in the clustering of synaptic vesicle in HSNL neuron but is mediated by vulval epithelial cells. The syg-1 encoded SYG-1 immunoglobulin superfamily protein participates in the presynaptic HSNL axon formation. Further, the SYG-1 protein initiates synapse formation and establish synaptic connections in response to the signal from the epithelial cells.
Publication Name: Cell
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0092-8674
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Alternative olfactory neuron fates are specified by the LIM homeobox gene lim-4 (ital)
Article Abstract:
Alternative olfactory neuron fates are discussed based on research of Caenorhabditis elegans. Altered expression of str-2::GFP, a reporter gene usually expressed in one of the two AWB olfactory neurons, it is proposed that the LIM-4 and ODR-7 transcription factors act to diversity C. elegans olfactory neuron roles and to move them from an AWC-position function to others.
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Candidate adaptor protein CED-6 promotes the engulfment of apoptotic cells in C. elegans. Apoptosis: corralling the corpses
- Abstracts: Ponce d'elegans: genetic quest for the fountain of youth. Tissue-specific activities of C. elegans DAF-16 in the regulation of lifespan
- Abstracts: Gibberellins signal nuclear import of PHOR1, a photoperiod-responsive protein with homology to Drosophila armadillo