WormMine

WS294

Intermine data mining platform for C. elegans and related nematodes

Anatomy Term :

Definition  Neuron class of one pharyngeal interneuron. Name  I4 neuron
Primary Identifier  WBbt:0004741 Synonym  I4

1 Children

Definition Name Synonym Primary Identifier
nucleus of pedigree MSaaaapaa MSaaaapaa nucleus   WBbt:0002102

6 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment Description Algorithm Primary Identifier
  Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 125 expressed in: AFD. CellRanger, DecontX, Monocle3, Louvain algorithm. WBPaper00065623:125
  Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 126 expressed in: ASG. CellRanger, DecontX, Monocle3, Louvain algorithm. WBPaper00065623:126
  Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 124_0 expressed in neuron. scVI 0.6.0 WBPaper00065841:124_0
  Transcripts enriched in I4 according to single cell RNAseq. Genes that pass the Bonferroni threshold for multiple comparisons (q < 0.05) are significantly enriched. WBPaper00061651:I4_enriched
  Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 123 expressed in: I5; I4. CellRanger, DecontX, Monocle3, Louvain algorithm. WBPaper00065623:123
  Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 124 expressed in: Embryonic cells. CellRanger, DecontX, Monocle3, Louvain algorithm. WBPaper00065623:124

57 Expression Patterns

Remark Reporter Gene Primary Identifier Pattern Subcellular Localization
Isoform 1b.1   Expr11755    
Isoform 1b.2   Expr11756    
    Expr15558    
    Expr9325 Synaptogyrin is expressed in all 26 GABAergic neurons including also RMER and most though not all other neurons. Synaptogyrin is absent in amphids and phasmids and can be detected in non-neuronal glial-like sheath cells in adult worms. The cephalic neurons CEPDR/L and CEPVR/L and amphid-associated sheath cells CEPshDR/L, CEPshVR/L were tentatively positive. Several other neurons that could be tentatively identified in the anterior part are MI, M4, I4, AVL, AIY, RIS, I5, M3R/L, and in the posterior part DVA, AS11, ALNR/L, DVC, DVB, PQR, DA9 (characteristic axonal process denoted by arrowhead), VD13, DD6, VD12. Of these, AVL, RIS, VD13, DD6 and VD12 are GABAergic based on the colocalization with the unc-47p::GFP reporter. In addition, IL neurons were tentatively identified in the anterior (IL*). Synaptogyrin reporter constructs are also expressed in developing neurons. The expression of sng-1p::YFP is closely associated with the development of the nervous system being absent in the gastrula stage with first fluorescence in neuronal precursor cells and newly-formed neurons in the anterior part during the 1.5-fold stage. In addition, it is also detected transiently in cells in the posterior body at the 1.25-fold and 1.5-fold stage.  
The cellular expression pattern for nlp-3 fragments was indistinguishable from the cellular expression pattern for nlp-3 subcloned constructs. Transgenic lines were generated by coinjection of the nlp::gfp construct (5070 ng/ul) and lin-15 rescue construct (pJM24,100 ng/ul) into lin-15(n765ts) animals. At least two independent transgenic lines were analyzed for each nlp gene; 5-10 animals were scored per line. 1,1'-Dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3 -tetramethylindodicarbocyanine perchlorate (Molecular Probes) was used to stain amphid and phasmid neurons to facilitate identification.   Expr1688 Expressed in ADF, ASE, ASH, AWB, ASJ, BAG, HSN, I1, I2, I3, I4, MI, M3, NSMR, 3 head neurons, VNC, oocytes, I6, M2, pm1VL, intestine.  
    Expr15571    
    Expr15572    
    Expr15573    
    Expr15579    
    Expr15583    
    Expr15586    
    Expr15651    
    Expr15652    
    Expr15589    
    Expr13158    
    Expr15591    
    Expr15598    
    Expr11622 Expression of ceh-34::gfp transgene began during embryogenesis. CEH-34::GFP was localized to the nuclei of expressing cells. During embryonic morphogenesis and larval development and throughout adulthood, expression of the ceh-34::gfp transgene was seen predominantly in pharyngeal cells. The ceh-34::gfp transgene was expressed in all pharyngeal neurons (M4, I1, MI, I3, M3, NSM, MC, I2, I4, I5, I6, M1, M2, and M5), some pharyngeal muscle cells (pm1 and pm2) and pharyngeal epithelial cells (e1 and e3), and some body wall muscles around the anterior pharynx.  
    Expr15604    
    Expr14590 Embryonic expression of exc-7 was first observed at the bean stage. By reverse lineaging with use of SIMI-Biocell software, we confirm the identity of one of the expressing cells at this stage as the excretory canal cell. In L1 animals, broad expression in the head, ventral nerve cord (VNC), and tail was observed. In young adults, expression is notably observed in vulva cells. In the nervous system specifically, expression is observed in many neurons throughout the body, but unlike Drosophila Elav, exc-7::gfp it is not panneuronally expressed. We confirmed previously reported expression in cholinergic VNC MNs, but absence of GABAergic VNC MNs, consistent with previous reports (Fujita et al., 1999; Loria et al., 2003) and consistent with exc-7 functioning in cholinergic, but not GABAergic neurons to control alternative splicing (Norris et al., 2014). exc-7::gfp is also expressed in some non-neuronal cell types, including muscle and hypodermis, but not in the gut. A previous report showed that exc-7 is only transiently and weakly expressed in the excretory cell, which, based on exc-7's excretory mutant phenotype, has puzzled researchers (Fujita et al., 2003). We find that the gfp tagged exc-7 locus is strongly and continuously expressed in the excretory canal cell.  
    Expr15608    
    Expr15611    
    Expr3759 ser-7::gfp DNA injected into C. elegans at 0.5-0.05 ng/Ul produced lines that exhibited marked GFP fluorescence in a number of pharyngeal neurons, including the MCs, M4, I2s, I3, M5 and occasionally in the M3s, I4, I6 and M2s. Strong GFP fluorescence was also observed in the vulval muscles.  
    Expr3136 C33G8.5 showed medium to strong expression in scattered nonchemosensory neurons.5  
Reporter gene fusion type not specified. The antibody staining showed EAT-20 expression in the seam cells and hypodermal cells, which is inconsistent with the absence of GFP expression in those cells in the promoter trap lines, suggesting that p5E5 may not contain all the cis-regulatory elements necessary for the expression of the eat-20 gene. GFP expression was analyzed in ncIs1 hermaphrodites carrying p5E5 as a stable integrated transgenic array. Though p5E5 contains a 2-kb genomic fragment derived from LGV at the 5' side in addition to the fragment corresponding to the eat-20 gene, it is confirmed that an extrachromosomal array of p5E5 and that of p5E5del, in which the 2-kb fragment was deleted, gave the same GFP expression pattern. Thus, the fragment at the 5' part of the insert had no effects on the expression of GFP. Neurons expressing GFP were first identified in L1 larvae. Expr976 In embryos, GFP expression was first detected at the 2-fold stage. Sometimes eight cells in the anterior half of the body expressed GFP. At the 3-fold stage, several cells around the pharynx expressed GFP in most embryos. About half of the embryos also expressed GFP weakly in the pharynx. At L1, GFP was detected in a subset of neurons. About half of the larvae also expressed GFP in the pharynx; expression in the terminal bulb was the most intense. At the adult stage, GFP was detected in the pharyngeal muscles, m3, m4, and m6. In addition, GFP was detected in a subset of neurons: IL1, OLQ, BAG, and ALN, several circumpharyngeal cells, and coelomocytes. Very faint GFP fluorescence was detected in the pharyngeal neurons including I4 and I5 in L1 larvae.  
    Expr11834 Expression from the pPHA2::GFP-F construct was restricted to three types of pharyngeal cells: reproducible expression in the pharyngeal interneuron I4, and weak and rare (detected in <10% of transgenic worms) expression in pm5 muscle cells and in three pharyngeal epithelial cells.  
    Expr11836 When the 2.7-kb promoter is present to drive a truncated pha-2 gene containing only the first three exons and first two introns, the complete pharyngeal expression profile of the full-length rescue-competent pPHA2::GFP-A construct is restored (pPHA2::GFP-E). This construct also supports expression in rectal gland cells, but shows no expression in the head neurons or intestine. This shows that important regulatory sequences exist within the first two introns and that these elements operate in concert with 5' sequences that are in the 500 to 2700 bp to drive robust expression of pha-2 in the pm5, I4, metacorpus cells, and pharyngeal epithelial cells.  
    Expr11837 The pPHA2::GFP-D construct, which contains the third intron as well as part of the fourth exon, exhibited an expression profile similar to the pPHA2::GFP-E construct (Expr11836).  
    Expr12198 Examination of the expression pattern of prdx-2 using a rescuing translational reporter (prdx-2prom::prdx-2::mCherry) revealed expression in a broad set of tissues: I2, I4, and intestine (as previously reported; Isermann et al., 2004), as well as muscle (pharyngeal muscle 1, vulval muscle, body wall muscle), epithelial cells (e1, e3), and many neurons in the head and tail.  
    Expr15570    

12 Life Stages

Remark Definition Other Name Public Name Primary Identifier
  The whole period of embryogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, from the formation of an egg until hatching. embryo Ce WBls:0000003
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 620-800min(hatch) after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. A stage after elongation is over. The last stage of embryogenesis. Also called pre-hatched embryo, late embryo or morphogenetic embryo. fully-elongated embryo Ce WBls:0000021
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 350-620min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The stage that embryo starts elongation until elongation is over. elongating embryo Ce WBls:0000015
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 290-350min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Proliferate from 421 cells to 560 cells. The stage when embryo just finished gastrulation and is enclosing. enclosing embryo Ce WBls:0000013
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 100-290min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Proliferate from 28 cells to 421 cells. Referring to the whole period of gastrulation. gastrulating embryo Ce WBls:0000010
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 0-350min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Proliferate from 1 cell to 560 cells. From start of first cleavage until cleavage is over. proliferating embryo Ce WBls:0000004
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 520-620min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and tripple fold. A stage between 2-fold embryo and fully-elongated embryo. Also called pretzel embryo or pretzel stage. 3-fold embryo Ce WBls:0000020
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 420-460min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and fold back 50%. A stage between comma embryo and 2-fold embryo. 1.5-fold embryo Ce WBls:0000018
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 390-420min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo looks like a comma. A stage between bean embryo and 1.5-fold embryo. comma embryo Ce WBls:0000017
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 460-520min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and double fold. A stage between 1.5-fold embryo and 3-fold embryo. 2-fold embryo Ce WBls:0000019
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 350-390min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. Emrbyo elongation started but have not formed comma shape yet. The shape of embryo looks like a lima bean. A stage right before comma embryo. Also called lima embryo or lima bean stage. bean embryo Ce WBls:0000016
  The C. elegans life stage spanning 210-350min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Proliferate from 421 cells to 560 cells. The stage before the fast cleavage of cells finishes. late cleavage stage embryo Ce WBls:0000014

3 Parents

Definition Name Synonym Primary Identifier
the last, posterior bulb of the pharynx. terminal bulb   WBbt:0003732
interneuron of the pharyngeal nervous system. pharyngeal interneuron   WBbt:0003668
embryonic cell MSaaaapa   WBbt:0006349