Inferred by orthology to human genes with DO annotation (HGNC:2388)
Disease_relevance
C. elegans is an effective model system to study heat-related pathologies like heat stroke; in elegans, the heat-shock transcription factor, after activation, induces the expression of other small heat shock proteins (sHSP); HSP-16.1 has a protective effect against heat-induced necrosis; HSP-16.1 localizes to the golgi and functions together with the PMR-1/PMR1 Ca2+ and Mn2+ transporting ATPase, and NUCB-1/Nucleobindin1, a golgi-located calcium-buffering protein, to maintain calcium homeostasis, under heat stroke; overexpresiion of pmr-1/PMR1 is sufficient to promote survival after heat stroke, bypassing both HSF-1 and HSP-16.1, indicating that PMR-1/PMR1 functions downstream of both these genes; also, the sHSPs, HSP-16.1, HSP-16.41 and DNJ-19 are required for an acquired tolerance to heat stroke.
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.