A stomatin-like protein necessary for mechanosensation in C. elegans.

doi:10.1038/378292a0

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A stomatin-like protein necessary for mechanosensation in C. elegans.

Nature - 16 Nov 1995

Huang M, Gu G, Ferguson E L, Chalfie M

Abstract excerpt

The mec-2 gene is required for the function of a set of six touch receptor neurons in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; mec-2 mutants, which are touch-insensitive, have touch cells that appear morphologically normal. Gene interaction studies suggest that mec-2 positively regulates the activity...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Axons
Blood Proteins
Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
Cloning, Molecular
Exons
Helminth Proteins
Introns
Mechanoreceptors
Membrane Proteins
Microtubules
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Restriction Mapping
Touch

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