YAP1 and bacterial infectious disease: To determine whether the susceptibility was attributable to accelerated bacterial infections in yap-1 and egl-44 mutants, we tested bacterial accumulation in the intestine, and found that the accumulation of P. aeruginosa PA14 or S. Typhimurium expressing GFP in yap-1(tm1416) and egl-44(mt2247) worms was significantly higher than that in WT worms (Fig 4E).