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Negative regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans epidermal damage responses by death-associated protein kinase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Feb 2009
Tong Amy, Lynn Grace, Ngo Vy, Wong Daniel, Moseley Sarah L, Ewbank Jonathan J, Goncharov Alexandr, Wu Yi-Chun, Pujol Nathalie, Chisholm Andrew D
Abstract excerpt
Wounding of epidermal layers triggers multiple coordinated responses to damage. We show here that the Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of the tumor suppressor death-associated protein kinase, dapk-1, acts as a previously undescribed negative regulator of barrier repair and innate immune responses to wounding. Loss of DAPK-1 function results in constitutive formation of scar-like structures in the cuticle, and...
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