daf-2;unc-64

Insulin-like receptor subunit beta;Receptor protein-tyrosine kinase;hypothetical protein

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Locus: CELE_Y55D5A.5

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Wormbase description: daf-2 encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase that is the C. elegans insulin/IGF receptor ortholog; DAF-2 activity is required for a number of processes in C. elegans, including embryonic and larval development, formation of the developmentally arrested dauer larval stage (diapause), larval developmental timing, adult longevity, reproduction, fat storage, salt chemotaxis learning, and stress resistance, including response to high temperature, oxidative stress, and bacterial infection; DAF-2 signals through a conserved PI 3-kinase pathway to negatively regulate the activity of DAF-16, a Forkhead-related transcription factor, by inducing its phosphorylation and nuclear exclusion; in addition, DAF-2 negatively regulates the nuclear localization, and hence transcriptional activity, of SKN-1 in intestinal nuclei; amongst the 38 predicted insulin-like molecules in C. elegans, genetic and microarray analyses suggest that at least DAF-28, INS-1, and INS-7 are likely DAF-2 ligands; genetic mosaic and tissue-specific promoter studies indicate that daf-2 can function cell nonautonomously and within multiple cell types to influence dauer formation and adult lifespan, likely by regulating the production of secondary endocrine signals that coordinate growth and longevity throughout the animal; temporal analysis of daf-2 function indicates that daf-2 regulates lifespan, reproduction, and diapause independently, at distinct times during the animal's life cycle.

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Syntaxin-1A homolog

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Locus: CELE_F56A8.7

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Wormbase description: unc-64 encodes syntaxin, a plasma membrane receptor for intracellular vesicles that is orthologous to vertebrate syntaxin 1A (OMIM:186590) and Drosophila Syx1A; UNC-64 is required for normal locomotion and possibly also for insulin secretion; as an essential component of the core synaptic vesicle fusion machinery, UNC-64 interacts with UNC-13, a diacylglycerol-binding protein, and SNB-1/synaptobrevin; UNC-64 trafficking from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane is mediated by UNC-18, an SM (Sec1, Munc18) family member; unc-64 mutations can be suppressed by mutations in slo-1, a calcium-activated potassium channel; UNC-64 is expressed ubiquitously in the nervous system and in secretory cells such as the vulval uv1 cell and the excretory gland cells.

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