Novel protein which has a C-terminal motif weakly homologous to mouse NPDC-1 and is involved in synaptic regulation; it is expressed in various neurons including ventral cord and tail ganglion neurons; it physically interacts with AEX-3, which is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the Rab3 GTPase.
Involved in chemical synaptic transmission; positive regulation of anterior/posterior axon guidance; and ventral cord development. Predicted to be located in membrane and synapse. Is an ortholog of human NPDC1 (neural proliferation, differentiation and control 1).
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.