age-1;daf-18;fer-15

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase age-1;hypothetical protein

Locus: CELE_B0334.8

Wormbase description: age-1 encodes the C. elegans ortholog of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) p110 catalytic subunit; AGE-1, supplied maternally and embryonically, is a central component of the C. elegans insulin-like signaling pathway, lying downstream of the DAF-2/insulin receptor and upstream of both the PDK-1 and AKT-1/AKT-2 kinases and the DAF-16 forkhead type transcription factor, whose negative regulation is the key output of the insulin signaling pathway; in accordance with its role in insulin signaling, AGE-1 activity is required for regulation of metabolism, life span, dauer formation, stress resistance, salt chemotaxis learning, fertility, and embryonic development; although the age-1 expression pattern has not yet been reported, ectopic expression studies indicate that pan-neuronal age-1 expression is sufficient to rescue life-span defects, while neuronal, intestinal, or muscle expression can partially rescue dauer formation, and neuronal or muscle expression can rescue metabolic defects.

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate 3-phosphatase and dual-specificity protein phosphatase daf-18

Locus: CELE_T07A9.6

Wormbase description: daf-18 encodes a lipid phosphatase homologous to the human PTEN tumor suppresor (OMIM:601728, mutated in Cowden disease and several cancers); DAF-18 negatively regulates insulin-like signaling mediated by DAF-2/IR and AGE-1/PI3K and thus plays a role in metabolism, development, and longevity; based on sequence and genetic analysis, DAF-18 is predicted to dephosphorylate AGE-1-generated PIP3 in order to limit activation of the downstream AKT-1 and AKT-2 kinases that negatively regulate DAF-16.

No gene information for fer-15