Caenorhabditis elegans BAH-1 is a DUF23 protein expressed in seam cells and required for microbial biofilm binding to the cuticle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Drace, Kevin ^a,b   McLaughlin, Stephanie ^a   Darby, Creg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAH 1; PROTEIN DUF23; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPODERMA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; YERSINIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 69449095890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006741     Document Type: Article

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