nex-1 encodes an annexin, a member of a family of calcium-dependent phospholipid binding proteins; NEX-1 is required for efficient engulfment of apoptotic cell corpses in the pharynx, and may also function in other membrane fusion events, such as exocytosis; NEX-1 in vitro can bind phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, heparin, heparan sulfate, and chondroitin sulfate; NEX-1 is expressed in the pharynx, hypodermal cells, the vulva, the uterus, the spermathecal valve, and yolk granules of maturing oocytes.
Enables heparin binding activity and phospholipid binding activity. Involved in engulfment of apoptotic cell. Located in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle and plasma membrane. Expressed in hypodermis; pharynx; spermathecal-uterine junction; uterine toroidal epithelial cell; and vulva.
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.