Publication Date:
2003-12-20
Description:
The Caenorhabditis elegans excretory canal is composed of a single elongated and branched cell that is tunneled by an inner lumen of apical character. Loss of the exc-4 gene causes a cystic enlargement of this intracellular tube. exc-4 encodes a member of the chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) family of proteins. EXC-4 protein localizes to various tubular membranes in distinct cell types, including the lumenal membrane of the excretory tubes. A conserved 55-amino acid domain enables EXC-4 translocation from the cytosol to the lumenal membrane. The tubular architecture of this membrane requires EXC-4 for both its formation and maintenance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Berry, Katherine L -- Bulow, Hannes E -- Hall, David H -- Hobert, Oliver -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Dec 19;302(5653):2134-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14684823" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Animals, Genetically Modified
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Caenorhabditis elegans/cytology/*embryology/growth & development/*physiology
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Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Membrane/*metabolism
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Chloride Channels/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Cytoplasm/metabolism
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Epithelial Cells/metabolism
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Gene Expression
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Genes, Reporter
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Green Fluorescent Proteins
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Hot Temperature
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Humans
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Intracellular Membranes/*metabolism
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Luminescent Proteins
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Morphogenesis
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Mutation
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Pinocytosis
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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Vacuoles/*metabolism/ultrastructure
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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