age-1;ogt-1

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase age-1;hypothetical protein

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Locus: CELE_B0334.8

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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.

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O-linked GlcNAc Transferase;UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--peptide N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase

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Locus: CELE_K04G7.3

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Wormbase description: ogt-1 encodes an ortholog of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) transferase (OGT; OMIM:300255) with 12 N-terminal tetratricopeptide (TPR) domains (generally thought to enable protein-protein interactions) and a C-terminal putative catalytic domain; although loss of ogt-1 activity has no effect on overall viability or fertility, ogt-1 mutations result in alterations in macronutrient storage and can suppress constitutive dauer formation in daf-2 mutants suggesting that, in C. elegans, ogt-1 may play a regulatory role in nutrient sensing and insulin-like signaling pathways; OGT-1 is expressed in embryos, where it exhibits nuclear and punctate perinuclear localization.

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