enu-3 encodes a novel protein containing a single transmembrane domain and, at 144-165 amino acids, a coiled-coil region; enu-3 mutations enhance the axonal outgrowth defects of unc-5, although enu-3 mutations alone cause no motor axon outgrowth defects; ENU-3 functions in the same pathway as UNC-5 and UNC-6 for motor axon guidance to the dorsal cord but in a pathway parallel to UNC-5 and UNC-6 for axon outgrowth; enu-3 mutants are mildly uncoordinated and have a slight egg-laying defective phenotype; the rescue of axon outgrowth defects of a strain lacking both ENU-3 and UNC-5 depended on the presence of functional ENU-3 protein; ENU-3 is expressed in the PVT interneuron and is weakly expressed in many cell bodies along the ventral cord, including those of the DA and DB motor neurons.
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.