CGC Bibliography Paper 5074

An overview of C. elegans trafficking mutants.

Nurrish SJ

Medline:

Citation:

Traffic 3: 2-10 2002

Type:

REVIEW

Genes:

aex-3 apm-1 che-14 dgk-1 drp-1 dyb-1 dyn-1 dys-1 eat-16 egl-8 egl-10 egl-30 fer-1 fer-6 goa-1 gpb-2 lin-2 lin-7 lin-10 npc-1 npc-2 odr-4 odr-8 odr-10 pod-1 rab-3 ric-8 ric-19 rpm-1 sad-1 sel-9 snb-1 snt-1 spe-4 spe-5 spe-6 spe-10 spe-15 spe-17 syd-2 syn-3 syn-4 unc-10 unc-11 unc-13 unc-18 unc-26 unc-31 unc-43 unc-64 unc-101 unc-104

Abstract:

t is almost 40 years since Sydney Brenner introduced Caenorhabditis elegans as a model genetic system. During that time mutants with defects in intracellular trafficking have been identified in a diverse range of screens for abnormalities. This should, of course, come as no surprise as it is hard to imagine any biological process in which the regulated movement of vesicles within the cells is not critical at some step. Almost all of these genes have mammalian homologs, and yet the role of many of these homologs has not been investigated. Perhaps the protein that regulates your favorite trafficking step has already been identified in C elegans? Here I provide a brief overview of those trafficking mutants identified in C elegans and where you can read more about them.