Defects in the C. elegans acyl-CoA synthase, acs-3, and nuclear hormone receptor, nhr-25, cause sensitivity to distinct, but overlapping stresses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ward, Jordan D ^a   Mullaney, Brendan ^b   Schiller, Benjamin J ^a   He, Le D ^c,d   Petnic, Sarah E ^a   Couillault, Carole ^c,d   Pujol, Nathalie ^c,d   Bernal, Teresita U ^a   Van Gilst, Marc R ^e   Ashrafi, Kaveh ^b   Ewbank, Jonathan J ^c,d   Yamamoto, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUGLONE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACS 3 GENE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRECHMERIA CONIOSPORA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFESPAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NHR 25 GENE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS SENSITIVITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COENZYME A LIGASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84898651935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092552     Document Type: Article

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