aly-2 encodes an RRM motif-containing protein required for normal export of TRA-1/tra-2 mRNA complexes, and thus for normal hermaphroditism; ALY-2 is orthologous to human THOC4 (OMIM:604171), and paralogous to ALY-1 and ALY-3; in the absence of TRA-1, and in conjunction with NXF-1, ALY-2 and its paralog ALY-1 are required to bind the TRE 3' UTR element of tra-2 mRNA, and block tra-2 mRNA's export from the nucleus; aly-2(RNAi) animals have abnormal female (as opposed to hermaphrodite) sexual phenotypes; by orthology, ALY-2 is thought to promote recruitment of mRNA export factor to mRNAs; other than these sex-determination phenotypes, ALY-2 has no grossly obvious function in four-way RNAi assays of ALY-1/-3 and W04D2.6.
Predicted to enable mRNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in mRNA export from nucleus. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Is an ortholog of human ALYREF (Aly/REF export factor).
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.
CGC_data_submission
Published as ref-2. The CGC approved ref-2 is a different sequence with ID WBGene00004335