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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Two distinct types of neuronal asymmetries are controlled by the Caenorhabditis elegans zinc finger transcription factor die-1 |
| Creators Name: | Cochella, L., Tursun, B., Hsieh, Y.W., Galindo, S., Johnston, R.J., Chuang, C.F. and Hobert, O. |
| Abstract: | Left/right asymmetric features of animals are either randomly distributed on either the left or right side within a population ("antisymmetries") or found stereotypically on one particular side of an animal ("directional asymmetries"). Both types of asymmetries can be found in nervous systems, but whether the regulatory programs that establish these asymmetries share any mechanistic features is not known. We describe here an unprecedented molecular link between these two types of asymmetries in Caenorhabditis elegans. The zinc finger transcription factor die-1 is expressed in a directionally asymmetric manner in the gustatory neuron pair ASE left (ASEL) and ASE right (ASER), while it is expressed in an antisymmetric manner in the olfactory neuron pair AWC left (AWCL) and AWC right (AWCR). Asymmetric die-1 expression is controlled in a fundamentally distinct manner in these two neuron pairs. Importantly, asymmetric die-1 expression controls the directionally asymmetric expression of gustatory receptor proteins in the ASE neurons and the antisymmetric expression of olfactory receptor proteins in the AWC neurons. These asymmetries serve to increase the ability of the animal to discriminate distinct chemosensory inputs. |
| Keywords: | Asymmetry, Transcriptional Control, Animals, Caenorhabditis elegans, C. elegans |
| Source: | Genes & Development |
| ISSN: | 0890-9369 |
| Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | 34-43 |
| Date: | 1 January 2014 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.233643.113 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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