Genetic and physiological activation of osmosensitive gene expression mimics transcriptional signatures of pathogen infection in C. elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rohlfing, Anne Katrin ^a   Miteva, Yana ^a   Hannenhalli, Sridhar ^a   Lamitina, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ELT 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ELT 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ELT-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ELT-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; UPREGULATION; ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; OSMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT TOLERANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OSMOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 77749305020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009010     Document Type: Article

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