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SUBMITTER: Drace K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727005 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drace Kevin K McLaughlin Stephanie S Darby Creg C
PloS one 20090825 8
The cuticle of Caenorhabditis elegans, a complex, multi-layered extracellular matrix, is a major interface between the animal and its environment. Biofilms produced by the bacterial genus Yersinia attach to the cuticle of the worm, providing an assay for surface characteristics. A C. elegans gene required for biofilm attachment, bah-1, encodes a protein containing the domain of unknown function DUF23. The DUF23 domain is found in 61 predicted proteins in C. elegans, which can be divided into thr ...[more]