zip-8 encodes a bZip family transcription factor; the tm721 variation that affects zip-8 has been reported to result in lethality; a zip-8::gfp reporter fusion is expressed in the adult intestine.
Predicted to enable DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific and RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Predicted to be involved in regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Expressed in intestinal cell.
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.