mlt-11 encodes one of 13 C. elegans proteins related to the mammalian Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitors (TFPIs), serine protease inhibitors that function in blood coagulation (OMIM:152310); in C. elegans, genetic analysis indicates that mlt-11 is required for proper molting and, likely, for proper spatial and/or temporal regulation of proteolysis during the molting cycle; a mlt-11::gfp promoter fusion is expressed mid-way through each larval stage in the hypodermis including the hyp7 syncytium, the lateral seam cells (at larval-to-larval molts) and head and tail hypodermis; mlt-11 expression appears to be positively regulated by NHR-23 and LIN-14.
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.