mboa-3 encodes a putative transmembrane O-acyl transferase (MBOAT) orthologous to human MBOAT1 (OMIM:611732), and paralogous to C08F8.4 and ZK550.1; MBOA-3 has no obvious function in mass RNAi assays, and mboa-3(RNAi) animals incorporate exogenous arachidonic acid into phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) normally.
Predicted to enable acyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in lipid modification. Predicted to be located in membrane. Is an ortholog of human MBOAT1 (membrane bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 1) and MBOAT2 (membrane bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 2).
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.