The Caenorhabditis elegans mucin-like protein OSM-8 negatively regulates osmosensitive physiology via the transmembrane protein PTR-23

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rohlfing, Anne Katrin ^a,b   Miteva, Yana ^a,c   Moronetti, Lorenza ^a   He, Liping ^a   Lamitina, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN; PROTEIN OSM 8; PROTEIN PTR 23; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PTR 23 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PTR-23 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSM 8 GENE; OSMOREGULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OSMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLYCEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUCINS; MUTATION; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 79951479434     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001267     Document Type: Article

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