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WormBase Tree Display for Gene: WBGene00003230

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Name Class

WBGene00003230EvidenceCGC_data_submission
SMapS_parentSequenceW02A2
IdentityVersion1
NameCGC_namemex-5Person_evidenceWBPerson498
Sequence_nameW02A2.7
Molecular_nameW02A2.7
W02A2.7.1
CE21237
Other_nameCELE_W02A2.7Accession_evidenceNDBBX284604
Public_namemex-5
DB_infoDatabaseAceViewgene4O119
WormQTLgeneWBGene00003230
WormFluxgeneWBGene00003230
NDBlocus_tagCELE_W02A2.7
PanthergeneCAEEL|WormBase=WBGene00003230|UniProtKB=Q9XUB2
familyPTHR12547
NCBIgene178296
RefSeqproteinNM_070165.7
SwissProtUniProtAccQ9XUB2
TREEFAMTREEFAM_IDTF322043
UniProt_GCRPUniProtAccQ9XUB2
SpeciesCaenorhabditis elegans
HistoryVersion_change107 Apr 2004 11:29:31WBPerson1971EventImportedInitial conversion from geneace
StatusLive
Gene_infoBiotypeSO:0001217
Gene_classmex
Allele (51)
Legacy_information[Priess, J.] zu199: maternal-effect lethal mutation. Embryos produce excess intestine and pharyngeal muscle from the AB blastomere, while germ cells appear normal in most embryos by morphological criteria.
Strain (15)
RNASeq_FPKM (74)
GO_annotation (21)
Ortholog (30)
Paralog (20)
Structured_descriptionConcise_descriptionmex-5 encodes a novel protein that contains two CCCH zinc finger motifs; maternally provided MEX-5, which functions partly redundantly with the highly similar CCCH finger protein MEX-6, is essential for transducing polarity cues and establishing soma/germline asymmetry in the early embryo; in regulating soma/germline asymmetry, MEX-5 interacts with, and activates, the SOCS-box protein ZIF-1, which functions as part of an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex that degrades germ plasm proteins in somatic blastomeres; accordingly, ectopic expression of MEX-5 throughout the early embryo results in reduced expression of germline proteins in germline blastomeres; MEX-5 activity is regulated in vivo by PLK-1 and PLK-2, which presumably bind and phosphorylate MBK-2-primed MEX-5; MEX-5 is a cytoplasmic protein expressed at uniform levels in oocytes and newly fertilized eggs; from the 1-cell to 4-cell stages of embryogenesis, MEX-5 expression is dynamic, with highest levels seen in the anterior AB blastomere and, for a time, its daughters, the anterior portion of the P1 blastomere, P1 centrosomes (both, then posterior only), and the EMS and C blastomeres; the asymmetric distribution of MEX-5 in early embryos depends upon a phosphorylation/dephosphorylation cycle by the PAR-1 kinase and PP2A phosphatases including LET-92, that regulate MEX-5's association with slow- or fast-diffusing RNA-containing complexes.Paper_evidenceWBPaper00004112
WBPaper00005160
WBPaper00005735
WBPaper00005930
WBPaper00006004
WBPaper00031434
WBPaper00040201
Curator_confirmedWBPerson1843
Date_last_updated03 Oct 2011 00:00:00
Automated_descriptionEnables RNA binding activity; protein domain specific binding activity; and protein kinase binding activity. Involved in regulation of protein localization. Located in P granule and centrosome. Expressed in germ line; head muscle; head neurons; intestine; and somatic nervous system.Paper_evidenceWBPaper00065943
Curator_confirmedWBPerson324
WBPerson37462
Inferred_automaticallyThis description was generated automatically by a script based on data from the WS291 version of WormBase
Date_last_updated29 Nov 2023 00:00:00
Molecular_infoCorresponding_CDSW02A2.7
Corresponding_transcriptW02A2.7.1
Other_sequence (40)
Associated_featureWBsf977016
WBsf977017
WBsf977018
WBsf977019
WBsf977020
WBsf977021
WBsf977022
WBsf978625
WBsf229424
WBsf229425
Gene_product_bindsWBsf034344
WBsf034345
WBsf034346
WBsf034347
WBsf034348
WBsf034349
WBsf034350
WBsf034351
WBsf034352
Transcription_factorWBTranscriptionFactor000124
Experimental_infoRNAi_result (42)
Expr_patternExpr2463
Expr4082
Expr7693
Expr1027384
Expr1031527
Expr1158094
Expr2013543
Expr2031777
Drives_construct (165)
Construct_product (27)
AntibodyWBAntibody00000279
WBAntibody00000903
WBAntibody00001692
WBAntibody00002283
WBAntibody00002284
WBAntibody00002285
Microarray_results (22)
Expression_cluster (219)
Interaction (311)
WBProcessWBbiopr:00000017
Map_infoMapIVPosition8.5394Error0.011779
Well_ordered
PositivePositive_cloneW02A2Inferred_automaticallyFrom sequence, transcript, pseudogene data
Mapping_dataMulti_point3912
3913
4914
ReferenceWBPaper00004112
WBPaper00004134
WBPaper00004151
WBPaper00004333
WBPaper00004519
WBPaper00004540
WBPaper00004634
WBPaper00004995
WBPaper00005198
WBPaper00005297
WBPaper00005575
WBPaper00005930
WBPaper00006004
WBPaper00006019
WBPaper00006085
WBPaper00006192
WBPaper00006311
WBPaper00006320
WBPaper00010188
WBPaper00010770
WBPaper00013493
WBPaper00017386
WBPaper00017791
WBPaper00017792
WBPaper00017838
WBPaper00018728
WBPaper00018886
WBPaper00019765
WBPaper00022687
WBPaper00023619
WBPaper00024037
WBPaper00024449
WBPaper00024507
WBPaper00026355
WBPaper00026553
WBPaper00027124
WBPaper00027224
WBPaper00027230
WBPaper00027309
WBPaper00027310
WBPaper00027315
WBPaper00027320
WBPaper00027758
WBPaper00027949
WBPaper00028449
WBPaper00028569
WBPaper00030734
WBPaper00030923
WBPaper00031434
WBPaper00031567
WBPaper00032091
WBPaper00032098
WBPaper00032220
WBPaper00034062
WBPaper00034249
WBPaper00034418
WBPaper00034419
WBPaper00035436
WBPaper00035902
WBPaper00036486
WBPaper00037685
WBPaper00039209
WBPaper00039459
WBPaper00039505
WBPaper00040201
WBPaper00040688
WBPaper00041891
WBPaper00043605
WBPaper00043781
WBPaper00046147
WBPaper00046196
WBPaper00046208
WBPaper00046598
WBPaper00048167
WBPaper00048172
WBPaper00048250
WBPaper00048493
WBPaper00050091
WBPaper00050482
WBPaper00051947
WBPaper00051995
WBPaper00052136
WBPaper00053488
WBPaper00053843
WBPaper00054190
WBPaper00054440
WBPaper00054941
WBPaper00055322
WBPaper00055904
WBPaper00056355
WBPaper00056635
WBPaper00056676
WBPaper00057006
WBPaper00057140
WBPaper00057162
WBPaper00058059
WBPaper00058751
WBPaper00059544
WBPaper00060545
WBPaper00061080
WBPaper00061973
WBPaper00062454
WBPaper00062571
WBPaper00063063
WBPaper00063073
WBPaper00064221
WBPaper00064298
WBPaper00065555
WBPaper00066020
MethodGene