Publication Date:
1996-11-22
Description:
The Caenorhabditis elegans dauer larva is specialized for dispersal without growth and is formed under conditions of overcrowding and limited food. The daf-7 gene, required for transducing environmental cues that support continuous development with plentiful food, encodes a transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily member. A daf-7 reporter construct is expressed in the ASI chemosensory neurons. Dauer-inducing pheromone inhibits daf-7 expression and promotes dauer formation, whereas food reactivates daf-7 expression and promotes recovery from the dauer state. When the food/pheromone ratio is high, the level of daf-7 mRNA peaks during the L1 larval stage, when commitment to non-dauer development is made.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ren, P -- Lim, C S -- Johnsen, R -- Albert, P S -- Pilgrim, D -- Riddle, D L -- HD11239/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Nov 22;274(5291):1389-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biology Program and Division of Biological Sciences, 311 Tucker Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. riddle@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8910282" 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/genetics/*growth & development/metabolism
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*Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
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Genes, Helminth
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Genes, Reporter
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Green Fluorescent Proteins
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Helminth Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology
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Humans
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Larva/growth & development/metabolism
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Ligands
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Luminescent Proteins/genetics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Neurons, Afferent/*metabolism
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Phenotype
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Pheromones/pharmacology
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Temperature
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Transforming Growth Factor beta/chemistry/genetics/*physiology
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Transgenes
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
