Evolution of host innate defence: insights from Caenorhabditis elegans and primitive invertebrates

JE Irazoqui, JM Urbach, FM Ausubel - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2010 - nature.com
The genetically tractable model organism Caenorhabditis elegans was first used to model
bacterial virulence in vivo a decade ago. Since then, great strides have been made in …

Death associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1): a regulator of apoptosis and autophagy

P Singh, P Ravanan, P Talwar - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Death-Associated Protein Kinase 1 (DAPK1) belongs to a family of five serine/threonine
(Ser/Thr) kinases that possess tumor suppressive function and also mediate a wide range of …

Dapk1 improves inflammation, oxidative stress and autophagy in LPS-induced acute lung injury via p38MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway

T Li, YN Wu, H Wang, JY Ma, SS Zhai, J Duan - Molecular immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the impact of death-associated protein kinase 1 (Dapk1) on
lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) via p38MAPK/NF-κB pathway …

Nanoscale patterning of collagens in C. elegans apical extracellular matrix

JRG Adams, M Pooranachithra, EM Jyo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) are complex extracellular compartments that form
important interfaces between animals and their environment. In the adult C. elegans cuticle …

MAPK signaling promotes axonal degeneration by speeding the turnover of the axonal maintenance factor NMNAT2

LJ Walker, DW Summers, Y Sasaki, EJ Brace… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Injury-induced (Wallerian) axonal degeneration is regulated via the opposing actions of pro-
degenerative factors such as SARM1 and a MAPK signal and pro-survival factors, the most …

[PDF][PDF] Signaling in the innate immune response

DH Kim - 2015 - dspace.mit.edu
The maintenance of cellular and organismal homeostasis in the face of changes in the
environment is essential for survival. Pathogenic microorganisms represent one type of …

[HTML][HTML] A Gαq-Ca2+ signaling pathway promotes actin-mediated epidermal wound closure in C. elegans

S Xu, AD Chisholm - Current biology, 2011 - cell.com
Background Repair of skin wounds is essential for animals to survive in a harsh
environment, yet the signaling pathways initiating wound repair in vivo remain little …

Innate immunity in C. elegans

CN Martineau, NV Kirienko, N Pujol - Current topics in developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In its natural habitat, C. elegans encounters a wide variety of microbes, including food,
commensals and pathogens. To be able to survive long enough to reproduce, C. elegans …

A Damage Sensor Associated with the Cuticle Coordinates Three Core Environmental Stress Responses in Caenorhabditis elegans

W Dodd, L Tang, JC Lone, K Wimberly, CW Wu… - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although extracellular matrices function as protective barriers to many types of
environmental insult, their role in sensing stress and regulating adaptive gene induction …

Innate immunity in C. elegans

I Engelmann, N Pujol - Adv Exp Med Biol, 2010 - Springer
The nematodeCaenorhabditis elegansis proving to be a powerful invertebrate model to
study host-pathogen interactions. In common with other invertebrates, C. elegans relies …