[b]Defence gene???[/b]
I am wondering if anyone is interested in this gene (See WS176 available late May/ early June):
WBGene00045386 - C02B4.4 appears to be up-regulated when elegans is suffering fungal attack.
Back in september 2005 I added 2 small EST libraries to WormBase that were produced by Ahren D. et al following post infection to Monacrosporium haptotylum. From these 2 libraries there were 3 ESTs that align to this new gene where there were previously none (from the 1000s of ESTs that have been generated).
CN798292 - http://www.wormbase.org/db/misc/etree?name=CN798292;class=Sequence
CN798142 - http://www.wormbase.org/db/misc/etree?name=CN798142;class=Sequence
CN798365 - http://www.wormbase.org/db/misc/etree?name=CN798365;class=Sequence
This poses the question, is this gene only switched on/up-regulated when elegans is under stress ??? ?
Might be worth someone taking a look at this to identify function??