WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr11567

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
the feeding organ, a neuro-muscular pump in the head of the animal, used to ingest food, bacteria suspended in liquid, filter them out, grind them up and transport posteriorly into the instestine.	pharynx	esophagus	WBbt:0003681
neuron with its cell body situated in the head, excluding the pharynx.	head neuron		WBbt:0006751
neuron with its cell body situated in the tail, posterior to rectum.	tail neuron		WBbt:0006759
neuron that senses soluable chemicals	chemosensory neuron		WBbt:0005837

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00045483	oxy-5	F56H1.7	Caenorhabditis elegans

Pattern	Confocal laser microscopy revealed strong OXY-5::GFP fluorescence in neurons in the head and tail, in the pharynx, and in the intestine. The expression of OXY-5 in neurons was confirmed by co-localization of several signals of OXY-5::GFP with those of chemosensory neurons stained with a fluorescent dye DiQ.	Primary Identifier	Expr11567
Subcellular Localization	The fluorescence signals of OXY-5::GFP coincided well with those of MitoTracker Red in the pharynx, and we thus concluded that OXY-5 was localized in mitochondria.

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