pas-4 encodes a proteasome alpha-type seven subunit of the core 20S proteasome subcomplex; loss of pas-4 activity via RNAi results in a wide variety of defects including embryonic and larval lethality, sterility, abnormal locomotion, slow growth, and abnormal transgene expression and subcellular localization; loss of pas-4 activity also results in activation of SKN-1, a transcription factor required in adult worms for the acute response to oxidative stress and maternally for embryonic development.
Predicted to be involved in proteasomal protein catabolic process. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Predicted to be part of proteasome core complex, alpha-subunit complex. Expressed in tail. Is an ortholog of human PSMA7 (proteasome 20S subunit alpha 7) and PSMA8 (proteasome 20S subunit alpha 8).
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.