[Leon Avery] Weak Eat: slippery corpus. Slightly long. Movement slightly loopy (i.e. bends are deeper than normal). Hypersensitive to arecoline: will not grown at concentrations >= 1 mM.
See also ad541
[C.elegansII] ad541 : weak Eat: slippery corpus. Slightly long. Movement slightly loopy (i.e. bends are deeper than normal). Hypersensitive to arecoline (cholinergic agonist): will not grown at concentrations >= 1 mM. Synthetic lethal with eat-6; suppressed by egl-30(gf), exp-2(gf). NA1. [Avery 1993; DA; JT]
[M Robatzek] eat-11 is allelic to gpb-2 (Robatzek et al. Current Biology 2001, 11:288-293)
gpb-2 encodes an ortholog of Gbeta(5), that is dispensable for viability, but required for normal egg-laying, locomotion, and pharyngeal pumping; GBP-2 may regulate the interaction between the GOA-1 and EGL-30 signaling pathways based on genetic analysis; gpb-2 is expressed throughout development in the nervous system and in muscle, and expression is dependent upon expression of both EAT-16 and EGL-10.
Predicted to enable signaling receptor complex adaptor activity. Involved in several processes, including cellular response to organonitrogen compound; regulation of egg-laying behavior; and regulation of pharyngeal pumping. Located in neuronal cell body. Expressed in body wall musculature; neurons; pharyngeal muscle cell; and vulval muscle. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in intellectual developmental disorder with cardiac arrhythmia. Is an ortholog of human GNB5 (G protein subunit beta 5).