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Soluble guanylate cyclases act in neurons exposed to the body fluid to promote C. elegans aggregation behavior.
Current biology : CB - 22 Jun 2004
Cheung Benny H H, Arellano-Carbajal Fausto, Rybicki Irene, de Bono Mario
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The genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans encodes seven soluble guanylate cyclases (sGCs). In mammals, sGCs function as alpha/beta heterodimers activated by gaseous ligands binding to a haem prosthetic group. The principal activator is nitric oxide, which acts through sGCs to regulate diverse cellular events. In C. elegans the function of sGCs is mysterious: the worm genome does not appear to encode...
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