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ref-2 ref-2 wrm-1 wrm-1 egl-27 egl-27 egl-5 egl-5 wdr-5.1 wdr-5.1 swsn-2.2 swsn-2.2 aha-1 aha-1 rad-26 rad-26 ulp-4 ulp-4 ahr-1 ahr-1 hlh-15 hlh-15 hcf-1 hcf-1 hsp-90 hsp-90 nhr-6 nhr-6 hda-1 hda-1 bar-1 bar-1 glp-1 glp-1 yap-1 yap-1 F21A9.2 F21A9.2 egl-44 egl-44 ubc-9 ubc-9 fos-1 fos-1 hif-1 hif-1 hsp-4 hsp-4 lin-42 lin-42 ctbp-1 ctbp-1 math-33 math-33 egl-46 egl-46 daf-8 daf-8 lin-12 lin-12 cbp-1 cbp-1 mdt-15 mdt-15 kgb-1 kgb-1 sys-1 sys-1 dpl-1 dpl-1 jun-1 jun-1 pop-1 pop-1 gei-17 gei-17 efl-1 efl-1 hsp-60 hsp-60 swsn-3 swsn-3 ham-3 ham-3
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ref-2REgulator of Fusion. (315 aa)
wrm-1Armadillo repeat-containing protein wrm-1; Antagonistic role in the Wnt signaling pathway that operates in embryogenesis. When located at the cortex it has been shown to inhibit Wnt signaling during asymmetric cell division but when relocated to the nucleus it shows positive regulation. Has a role in blastomere signaling during endoderm specification. Activates lit-1- dependent kinase activity. Wrm-1/lit-1 complex promotes phosphorylation, down-regulation and subcellular relocation of pop-1. Can substitute for bar-1 indicating functional redundancy. Appears to have a role in centrosome [...] (796 aa)
egl-27Egg-laying defective protein 27; Transcription factor which promotes stress survival and delays aging. Required for cell cycle progression and development of the mesodermal and endodermal embryonic lineages. Required for normal T-cell polarity, for correct migration of QL neuroblast descendants and other cells, for embryonic patterning and for the embryonic expression of hlh-8. Also required for the transdifferentiation of the Y rectal epithelial cell to the PDA motor neuron during larval development. (1129 aa)
egl-5Homeobox protein egl-5; Essential for the determination of specific neurons. (223 aa)
wdr-5.1WD repeat-containing protein wdr-5.1; Contributes to histone modification. May position the N-terminus of histone H3 for efficient trimethylation at 'Lys-4'. Required for di- and trimethylation, particularly for the trimethylation at 'Lys-4' of histone H3. Not required for demethylation of histone H3 'Lys-27'. H3 'Lys-4' methylation represents a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation, germline establishment, maintenance and function. Implicated in the epigenetic inheritance of lifespan over several generations. Acts in the germline to limit the longevity of the soma, pr [...] (376 aa)
swsn-2.2SWIB domain-containing protein. (449 aa)
aha-1Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator homolog; Has a role in cellular differentiation. Required for pharyngeal development. In collaboration with ahr-1 it is involved in RMEL/R and SDQR neuron cell migration. Acts in the cellular response to hypoxia. Involved in aggregation behavior by regulating soluble guanylate cyclase gene expression in the URX neurons. (453 aa)
rad-26Uncharacterized protein. (1274 aa)
ulp-4Ubiquitin-like protease 4; Protease required for deconjugation of smo-1 conjugates from target proteins which is necessary for cell cycle progression. Required for respiration and the maintenance of normal mitochondrial homeostasis. (382 aa)
ahr-1Aryl hydrocarbon receptor protein 1; Probable ligand-activated transcriptional activator. Acts as a transcriptional regulator in GABAergic motor neuron cell fate specification and development. Promotes cell-type-specific expression of guanylate cyclase genes that have key roles in aggregation behavior and hyperoxia avoidance. Has no role in carbon dioxide avoidance. (602 aa)
hlh-15BHLH domain-containing protein. (89 aa)
hcf-1Host cell factor 1. (782 aa)
hsp-90Heat shock protein 90; Molecular chaperone that promotes the maturation, structural maintenance and proper regulation of specific target proteins involved for instance in cell cycle control and signal transduction. Undergoes a functional cycle that is linked to its ATPase activity. This cycle probably induces conformational changes in the client proteins, thereby causing their activation. Interacts dynamically with various co- chaperones that modulate its substrate recognition, ATPase cycle and chaperone function. By stabilizing the receptor-type guanylate cyclase daf-11 or another sig [...] (702 aa)
nhr-6Nuclear hormone receptor family member nhr-6; Transcriptional activator that induces gene expression by binding to the NGFI-B response element (NBRE) 5'-AAAGGTCA-3'. Required for proper morphogenesis of the spermatheca and the spermatheca-uterine valve formation. Promotes cell proliferation and differentiation of the spermatheca precursor cells during spermatheca development in larval stage L4. Might play a role in promoting G1/S phase progression in the spermatheca precursor cell lineage. Also required for the differentiation of the spermatheca-uterine junction core (sujc) cells which [...] (619 aa)
hda-1Histone deacetylase 1; Responsible for the deacetylation of lysine residues on the N-terminal part of the core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4). Histone deacetylation gives a tag for epigenetic repression. Plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events. Histone deacetylases act via the formation of large multiprotein complexes. Involved in the endoderm determination possibly by repressing end-1 expression. Also involved in vulval development, possibly by repressing lag-2 expression. In association with akir-1, plays a role in regula [...] (461 aa)
bar-1Beta-catenin/armadillo-related protein 1; Participates in the Wnt signaling pathway which affects cell fate and may regulate the stem cell divisions of seam cells during larval development. Functions as a transcriptional activator but is dependent on the interaction with pop-1. Involved in maintaining lin-39 Hox expression and regulating glr-1 abundance at the synapses. Required for mab-5 expression during Q neuroblast migration and for oxidative stress-induced daf-16 signaling. Has roles in egg laying, vulva precursor cell fate determination, Q neuroblast migration, posterior ectoderm [...] (811 aa)
glp-1Protein glp-1; Involved in the specification of the cell fates of the blastomeres, ABa and APa. Proper signaling by glp-1 induces ABa descendants to produce anterior pharyngeal cells, and APa descendants to adopt a different fate. Contributes to the establishment of the dorsal-ventral axis in early embryos. Regulates germ cell mitotic proliferation probably by regulating MAP kinase phosphatase lip-1 expression. Plays a negative role in lifespan. (1295 aa)
yap-1Yes-associated protein homolog 1; Plays a role in thermal stress response and in aging. (442 aa)
F21A9.2C2H2-type domain-containing protein. (392 aa)
egl-44Transcription enhancer factor-like protein egl-44; Acts upstream of egl-46 to prevent touch cell differentiation in FLP neurons. Also promotes HSN neuron development. In association with egl-46, regulates cell cycle exit in the neuronal Q cell lineage. May be involved in thermal stress response downstream of yap-1. (493 aa)
ubc-9SUMO-conjugating enzyme UBC9; Accepts the ubiquitin-like protein smo-1 from the aos-1-uba-2 E1 complex and catalyzes its covalent attachment to other proteins with the help of an E3 ligase such as gei-17. Required to sumoylate the ETS transcription factor lin-1 and the Polycomb protein sop-2. Required for embryonic development, fertility, vulval morphogenesis and inhibition of vulval cell fates. Belongs to the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme family. (166 aa)
fos-1Transcription factor fos-1; Developmentally regulated transcription factor which binds and recognizes the enhancer DNA sequence 5'-TGA[CG]TCA-3'. [Isoform b]: Required for ovulation. Controls plc-1 expression in the spermatheca to regulate spermathecal valve dilation. Acts with hda-1 as a downstream repressor of the kgb-1 mediated stress response pathway that transcriptionally represses genes involved in the response to heavy metals, such as kreg-1 ; Belongs to the bZIP family. Fos subfamily. (467 aa)
hif-1Hypoxia-inducible factor 1; A transcription factor which is a key regulator in various cellular processes; including environment stress resistance (oxygen levels, hydrogen sulfide and cyanide levels and heat), negative regulation of cell apoptosis in ASJ neurons by inhibition of cep-1 via transcriptional activation of tyr-2, resistance/susceptibility to pathogenic bacteria, lifespan and brood size. Involved in mediating susceptibility to enteropathogenic E.coli. Increased levels of hif-1 activity confer resistance to P.aeruginosa-mediated death but also confer susceptibility to S.aureu [...] (721 aa)
hsp-4Endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP homolog; Endoplasmic reticulum chaperone that plays a key role in protein folding and quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen (By similarity). Required for ER dynamics during the first embryonic cell divisions. Specifically, controls ER transition into sheet-like structures at the onset of mitosis, possibly by regulating homotypic membrane fusion. Belongs to the heat shock protein 70 family. (657 aa)
lin-42Period protein homolog lin-42; Transcriptional repressor which interacts with the promoter region of target genes. Has a specific role in developmental timing where it regulates temporal expression of a number of miRNAs and mRNAs. Controls temporal cell fate transition during embryonic and early larval development by restricting the expression of specific miRNAs, including let-7, miR-48, lin-4, miR-35 and miR-58. Restricts the accumulation of lin-29 in the hypodermis to the larval L4 stage, thus controlling terminal differentiation of seam cells. Has a role in the miRNA-mediated specif [...] (654 aa)
ctbp-1C-terminal-binding protein 1; Binds DNA and represses gene expression. Plays a role in regulation of life span, possibly by regulating transcription of genes important for lipid metabolism. (727 aa)
math-33Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 7; Hydrolase that deubiquitinates target proteins. (1138 aa)
egl-46C2H2-type domain-containing protein. (286 aa)
daf-8Dwarfin sma. (546 aa)
lin-12Protein lin-12; Involved in several cell fate decisions that require cell- cell interactions. It is possible that lin-12 encodes a membrane-bound receptor for a signal that enables expression of the ventral uterine precursor cell fate. Activity in cell fate decisions and tumorigenesis is negatively regulated by sel-10. Functions in uterine cells to promote basement membrane mobility during tissue remodeling. (1429 aa)
cbp-1Protein cbp-1; Acetyltransferase enzyme. Acetylates histones, giving a specific tag for transcriptional activation (By similarity). May prevent DNA damage-induced apoptosis by inhibiting cep-1-dependent transcription activation of the programmed cell death activator egl-1. (2017 aa)
mdt-15Mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription subunit 15; Component of the Mediator complex, a coactivator involved in regulated gene transcription of nearly all RNA polymerase II-dependent genes. Mediator functions as a bridge to convey information from gene- specific regulatory proteins to the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. Mediator is recruited to promoters by direct interactions with regulatory proteins and serves as a scaffold for the assembly of a functional preinitiation complex with RNA polymerase II and the general transcription factors (By similarity). Require [...] (780 aa)
kgb-1GLH-binding kinase 1; Mitogen-activated protein kinase which is an essential component of the JNK pathway composed of mlk-1, mek-1 and kgb-1. Phosphorylates the transcription factor fos-1 which prevents fos-1 dimerization and promoter binding and results in activation of target genes including F53A9.2/kreg-1 and lys-3/kreg-2. Phosphorylates jun-1 and activates the AP-1 transcription factor which is a heterodimer of jun-1 and fos-1. Phosphorylates glh-1 in vitro which may play a role in controlling glh-1 protein levels in the germline by targeting it for degradation by the proteasome. R [...] (390 aa)
sys-1SYmmetrical Sister cell hermaphrodite gonad defect. (811 aa)
dpl-1Transcription factor dpl-1; Synthetic multivulva class B (synMuvB) protein. SynMuvB proteins are required to repress the induction of vulval development by Ras signaling and probably act by forming the multiprotein DRM complex that represses transcription. May also negatively regulate vulval development in association with other SynMuv class B proteins such as lin-15A. Can stimulate E2F-dependent transcription. Plays a role in negatively regulating the progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle during postembryonic development, most likely by acting as a transcriptional repress [...] (598 aa)
jun-1Transcription factor jun-1; Transcription factor that recognizes and binds to the AP-1 non-canonical enhancer heptamer motif 5'-TTAGTCA-3'. Required for ovulation. Controls plc-1 expression in the spermatheca to regulate spermathecal valve dilation. (319 aa)
pop-1Protein pop-1; Part of the Wnt signaling pathway essential for the specification of the mesodermal cell fate in early embryos. Required for asymmetrical division of somatic gonadal precursor descendants which initiate axis formation required to control organ shape. Represses expression of target genes via its interaction with hda-1 histone deacetylase. Required for specification of the M lineage-derived coelomocyte and sex myoblast fate. Regulates coelomocyte fate by positively regulating proliferation and ceh-34 and possibly eya-1 expression in M.dlpa and M.drpa precursors. (438 aa)
gei-17E3 SUMO-protein ligase gei-17; Functions as an E3-type smo-1 ligase. Mediates smo-1 conjugation to air-2 in vitro and is required for proper chromosome alignment. In the early embryo, specifically suppresses checkpoint activation in response to DNA damage, maybe by promoting mus-101 sumoylation. In embryos, plays a role in determining telomere localization in the nucleus. (780 aa)
efl-1E2F_TDP domain-containing protein; Belongs to the E2F/DP family. (342 aa)
hsp-60Chaperonin homolog Hsp-60, mitochondrial; Implicated in mitochondrial protein import and macromolecular assembly. May facilitate the correct folding of imported proteins. May also prevent misfolding and promote the refolding and proper assembly of unfolded polypeptides generated under stress conditions in the mitochondrial matrix (By similarity). (568 aa)
swsn-3HMG box domain-containing protein. (338 aa)
ham-3SWIB domain-containing protein. (446 aa)
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Caenorhabditis elegans
NCBI taxonomy Id: 6239
Other names: C. elegans, Rhabditis elegans, roundworm
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