The fusogen EFF-I controls sculpting of mechanosensory dendrites

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5983, 2010, Pages 1285-1288

  Oren Suissa, Meital ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Treinin, Millet ^c   Shemer, Gidi ^a,d   Podbilewicz, Benjamin ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN EFF 1; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EFF 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EFF-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; MUTATION; NEMATODE; NEUROLOGY; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DENDRITES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEURITES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953259258     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1189095     Document Type: Article

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19. We thank A. Fire for vectors; N. Assaf and T. Gattegno for eff-1 alleles; E. Shmuklerfor preliminary phenotypic characterization of the PVD in eff-1(hy21ts); T. Stiernagle and the CGC for nematode strains; J. White and J. Hodgkin for donation of the MRC/LMB archival prints to DHH; C. Crocker for TEM cartoon; and O. Avinoam, D. Cassel, M. Kozlov, A. Sapir, and I. Yanai for critically reading the manuscript. Supported by grants from the FIRST program of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF 1542/07 to B.P.), ISF 493/01-16.6 to M.T., and NIH RR12596 (Wormlmage Web site) to D.H.H.