Web making in spiders

Spiders make silk in a special part of their body called a gland and use their legs to pull it out of their bodies. This is called spinning.

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Both Fu and Cos2 become extensively phosphorylated, and Fu-Cos2-Ci complex Dissociates

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Dissociation of cytosolic complex leads to the stabilization of the full-length Ci, which moves into the

nucleus, displaces the repressor Ci75 from the promoter of target genes, and induces expression of target genes.

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NF-κB 

heterodimeric transcription factor, composed of p50 and p65 subunits

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NF-κB pathway is activated by:

components of bacterial or fungal cell walls or segments of bacterial DNA bind to Toll-like receptors

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NF-κB pathway is activated by:

TNFα and IL-1, released by immune cells in response to infection.