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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans
SUBMITTER: Man-Wah Tan
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-5584 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Shapira Michael M Hamlin Brigham J BJ Rong Jiming J Chen Karen K Ronen Michal M Tan Man-Wah MW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060912 38
Innate immunity is an ancient and conserved defense mechanism. Although host responses toward various pathogens have been delineated, how these responses are orchestrated in a whole animal is less understood. Through an unbiased genome-wide study performed in Caenorhabditis elegans, we identified a conserved function for endodermal GATA transcription factors in regulating local epithelial innate immune responses. Gene expression and functional RNAi-based analyses identified the tissue-specific G ...[more]