wrt-8 encodes a hedgehog-like protein, with (from N- to C-terminus) asignal sequence, a Wart domain, an short region of low-complexitysequence, and a Hint/Hog domain; WRT-8 is strongly expressed inhypodermal syncytia hyp6-hyp10 throughout life, and in in 12 subventralP cells and their descendants from 3-fold embryo to L2 larva stages; theHint/Hog domain is predicted to cut WRT-8 into two halves and thencovalently link cholesterol to the C-terminus of the Wart domain; theWart domain is predicted to form a cysteine-crosslinked protein involvedin intercellular signalling, and it has subtle similarity to theN-terminal Hedge domain of HEDGEHOG proteins; WRT-8 has no obviousfunction in RNAi assays.
Predicted to enable peptidase activity. Predicted to be involved in cell-cell signaling; protein autoprocessing; and system development. Predicted to be located in cell surface; extracellular region; and plasma membrane. Expressed in hyp10; hyp6; hyp7 syncytium; hyp8; and hyp9.
C09F3.d is wrong (typo?) and .d gene has been superceded. being changed to C29F3.2 a hedghog gene.[sdm 000904]
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.