WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr15542

• Pattern: MPS-2 was detected throughout development with broad expression in the embryo, including the epidermis, gut, and differentiating neurons. During larval development, expression becomes weaker and more restricted and adult worms show MPS-2 expression only in a couple of cells, including body-wall muscle, rectal muscle, somato-intestinal muscle, inconsistently in coelomocytes, and robust expression in the AVA neuron, which plays an important role in memory. On the other hand, con- trary to a previous study, MPS-2 was not detectable in the ADF neuron.
• Primary Identifier: Expr15542

9 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
A chain of very large cuboidal cells forming a wide central lumen in which food arrives from the posterior pharynx, is digested, and from which waste products proceed to the rectum. Intestinal rings form in groups of two and four cells surrounding the common lumen; thus the epithelium is only one cell deep at any point, with neighboring cells firmly secured to their neighbors by apical adherens junctions. These cells have very large nuclei and many large vacuoles, yolk granules, and other inclusions; the latter increase in number and electron density as the animal ages.	intestine	gut	WBbt:0005772
Longitudinal bands of muscle cells surrounding animal body, with one band running in each quadrant of the body, regulated contraction and relaxation of these muscles cause locomotion.	body wall musculature	body muscle	WBbt:0005813
Epidermal layer.	hypodermis	epidermis	WBbt:0005733
Major cell type of nervous tissue, specialized for transmission of information in the form of patterns of impulses.	neuron	neurone	WBbt:0003679
intestinal muscle cell, attach to intestine and body wall anterior to anus	intestinal muscle	stomato-intestinal muscle	WBbt:0005796
A free-floating spherical cell lying in the pseudocoelomic cavity of larvae and adult C. elegans which can endocytose many compounds, possibly for immune surveillance. There are six coelomocytes in adult hermaphrodites, and they display prominent cytoplasmic inclusions and vacuoles.	coelomocyte		WBbt:0005751
Ventral cord interneuron, synapses onto VA, DA, and AS motor neurons; formerly called alpha	AVAL	lineage name: ABalppaaapa	WBbt:0003870
Ventral cord interneuron, synapses onto VA, DA, and AS motor neurons; formerly called alpha	AVAR	lineage name: ABalaappapa	WBbt:0003869
muscle that controls hermaphrodite rectal opening.	rectal muscle	anal muscle	WBbt:0005803

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00019282	mps-2	K01A2.8	Caenorhabditis elegans

2 Life Stages

Remark	Definition	Other Name	Public Name	Primary Identifier
	The stage that begins when a C.elegans individual is fully-developed and has reached maturity.		adult Ce	WBls:0000041
	The whole period of embryogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, from the formation of an egg until hatching.		embryo Ce	WBls:0000003