nhr-3 encodes a member of the superfamily of nuclear receptors which is one of the most abundant class of transcriptional regulators; nuclear receptors have a well conserved DNA binding domain and a less conserved C-terminal ligand binding domain; nhr-3 has been identified and characterised as a gene affected by ethanol exposure in a microarray analysis of all C. elegans ORFs.
Predicted to enable RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in hormone-mediated signaling pathway; regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II; and tissue development. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Predicted to be part of RNA polymerase II transcription regulator complex. Expressed in head neurons; hypodermis; muscle cell; and ventral nerve cord.
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.