WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr16312

• Pattern: FLN-2 is expressed in the hypodermis including the main body syncytium hyp7 and the smaller head and tail hypodermal cells. In hyp7, FLN-2::GFP shows both vesicular and parallel stripe-like patterns. FLN-2::GFP co-localizes with VHA-5::RFP on the vesicular structures. The parallel stripe- like pattern of FLN-2 overlaps with VAB-10A, a component of the epidermal attachment structures called fibrous organelles (FOs), which suggests that FLN-2 also localizes to the FOs (Zhang and Labouesse, 2010). FLN-2 is also expressed in the kidney-like excretory canal cell, which is important for osmoregulation (Liegeois et al., 2006; Sundaram and Buechner, 2016). In the excretory canal, FLN-2::GFP is aligned at the apical side of VHA-5::RFP.
• Primary Identifier: Expr16312

5 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
Epidermal layer.	hypodermis	epidermis	WBbt:0005733
entire syncytium of hyp7	hyp7 syncytium	hyp7	WBbt:0005734
Four processes (canals) of the excretory canal cell each contain a central collecting lumen which feeds to a central lumenal canal in the cell body; the central canal forms a specialized membrane to release fluids into the excretory duct. These five canals form a continuous H-shaped channel which extends almost the full length of the body, generally in contact with the lateral hypodermis and the pseudocoelom.	excretory canal	canal	WBbt:0005775
cylindrical hypodermal syncytium in the head, including hyp1-hyp6	anterior hypodermis	head hypodermis	WBbt:0005373
hypodermis making up the tail.	tail hypodermis		WBbt:0006978

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00016006	fln-2	C23F12.1	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages