WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr16434

• Pattern: Imaging by spinning-disc confocal microscopy revealed that CAP-1 is expressed in multiple adult tissues, including the germline, spermatheca, pharynx and vulva. It was also found to localize at the apical side of gut epithelial cells, in striations along body-wall muscle cells and in the intestinal-rectal valve. We found CAP-1 to be expressed in all germ cells, where it localized to cell cortices and was highly enriched at rachis bridges and within the actomyosin corset surrounding the rachis . CAP-1 was also observed surrounding the germ cell nuclei. CAP-1 colocalized with PLST-1 and with NMY-2 along the rachis, confirming that it is an integral component of the actomyosin corset in the syncytial germline.
• Primary Identifier: Expr16434
• Reporter Gene: mKate2::CAP-1

7 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
an accordion-like tube that contains sperm and is the site of oocyte fertilization.	spermatheca		WBbt:0005319
female genital.	vulva		WBbt:0006748
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
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
cell line which early in development becomes differentiated from the remaining somatic cell line, and alone has the potential to undergo meiosis and form gametes.	germ line	germline	WBbt:0005784
cell that forms intestinal-rectal valve.	rectal valve cell	intestinal-rectal valve cell	WBbt:0005797

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00000292	cap-1	D2024.6	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages