mlt-10 encodes a nematode-specific protein that contains a domain of unknown function, DUF644, and tandem proline- and hydroxy amino acid-rich repeats; mlt-10 is required for proper execution of the molting cycle, as well as a number of other processes including normal body shape, locomotion, and reproduction; MLT-10 is expressed transiently with each molting cycle in the hypodermis, except for the lateral seam cells, and in the pharyngeal myoepithelium; MLT-10 is secreted into the surrounding matrix and fluids during molting and also found in strands near the animal surface; mlt-10 expression in the hypodermis depends upon the nuclear hormone receptors NHR-23 and NHR-25; MLT-10 contains thirteen paralogs in the C. elegans genome that, along with MLT-10, are all members of a large family of conserved nematode proteins.
Involved in cuticle development involved in collagen and cuticulin-based cuticle molting cycle and epidermis development. Located in extracellular space. Expressed in hypodermal cell and pharyngeal epithelial cell.
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.