set-23 encodes, by alternative splicing, one isoform of a putative histone H3 lysine-9 methyltransferase orthologous to human SETMAR (OMIM:609834); set-23(n4496) has an embryonic lethal phenotype.
Predicted to enable double-stranded DNA binding activity and histone methyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in chromatin remodeling and methylation. Predicted to be located in chromosome and nucleus. Expressed in hypodermis. Is an ortholog of human SETMAR (SET domain and mariner transposase fusion gene).
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.