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WormBase Tree Display for Gene: WBGene00021546

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Name Class

WBGene00021546SMapS_parentSequenceY43H11AL
IdentityVersion2
NameCGC_namelaat-1Paper_evidenceWBPaper00041321
Person_evidenceWBPerson3997
Sequence_nameY43H11AL.2
Molecular_nameY43H11AL.2a
Y43H11AL.2a.1
CE32969
Y43H11AL.2b
CE50707
Y43H11AL.2b.1
Other_nameY43H11AL.cCurator_confirmedWBPerson1983
RemarkOld cosmid naming mapped via unique overlapping PCR_product on CDSs
CELE_Y43H11AL.2Accession_evidenceNDBBX284602
Public_namelaat-1
DB_infoDatabase (11)
SpeciesCaenorhabditis elegans
HistoryVersion_change128 May 2004 13:31:04WBPerson1971EventImportedInitial conversion from CDS class of stlace from WS125
231 Aug 2012 11:56:39WBPerson2970Name_changeCGC_namelaat-1
StatusLive
Gene_infoBiotypeSO:0001217
Gene_classlaat
Allele (74)
RNASeq_FPKM (74)
GO_annotation (16)
Contained_in_operonCEOP2016
Ortholog (39)
Structured_descriptionAutomated_descriptionEnables L-arginine transmembrane transporter activity and L-lysine transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in basic amino acid transport; intracellular amino acid homeostasis; and positive regulation of autophagy. Located in lysosomal membrane. Used to study lysosomal storage disease. Is an ortholog of human SLC66A1 (solute carrier family 66 member 1).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
Disease_infoExperimental_modelDOID:3211Homo sapiensPaper_evidenceWBPaper00041321
Curator_confirmedWBPerson324
Date_last_updated21 Feb 2013 00:00:00
Disease_relevanceHuman PQLC2 is a lysosomal lysine/arginine transporter and human Cystinosin (CTNS), a lysosomal membrane protein, is believed to be a cystine transporter; mutations in CTNS cause Cystinosis, a condition characterized by accumulation of the amino acid cystine, within cells; excess cystine damages cells and often forms crystals, causing damage to the kidney, eyes, muscles, pancreas and testes; Cystinosis is treated by cysteamine (an aminothiol), a therapeutic agent for cystinosis which converts lysosomal free cystine to cysteine and the mixed disulfide of cysteine-cysteamine, which is thought to be exported from lysosomes as a lysine analog, through a lysine/cationic amino acid transporter; PQLC2 and CTNS are ortholgous to C. elegans ctns-1 and laat-1, respectively; in C. elegans, lysosomes purified from ctns-1(ok813) mutants showed cystine accumulation, suggesting that CTNS-1 mediates cystine efflux from lysosomes like human cystinosin; in laat-1(qx42) ctns-1(ok813) double mutants, however, cysteamine failed to deplete lysosomal cystine and suppress enlarged lysosomes, which accumulated high levels of cystine and the lysine analog mixed disulfide of cysteine-cysteamine; studies using transfected human cell lines and mutant worms, show that human PQLC2 and C. elegans LAAT-1 functioned as the necessary lysine-cationic amino acid transporters; laat-1 mutant worms show elevated lysosomal lysine and arginine content and laat-1 embryos show retarded development and defective lysosomal yolk degradation; thus C. elegans serves as a genetic model to study the role of lysosomal amino acid transporters under normal and disease states.Homo sapiensPaper_evidenceWBPaper00041321
Accession_evidenceOMIM219900
219800
219750
614760
Curator_confirmedWBPerson324
Date_last_updated07 May 2014 00:00:00
Models_disease_assertedWBDOannot00000101
Molecular_infoCorresponding_CDSY43H11AL.2a
Y43H11AL.2b
Corresponding_CDS_historyY43H11AL.2:wp90
Corresponding_transcriptY43H11AL.2a.1
Y43H11AL.2b.1
Other_sequence (37)
Associated_featureWBsf665304
WBsf976411
WBsf976412
WBsf976413
WBsf976414
WBsf986356
WBsf222578
Experimental_infoRNAi_resultWBRNAi00065328Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00093044Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00091100Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00009333Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00037067Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00056537Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00110757Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
WBRNAi00095079Inferred_automaticallyRNAi_primary
Expr_patternExpr10209
Expr13493
Expr1016801
Expr1039426
Expr1160013
Expr2012991
Expr2031223
Construct_productWBCnstr00014801
WBCnstr00014802
Microarray_results (16)
Expression_cluster (95)
Interaction (13)
Map_infoMapIIPosition-15.74
PositivePositive_cloneY43H11ALInferred_automaticallyFrom sequence, transcript, pseudogene data
Pseudo_map_position
Reference (12)
RemarkMap 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.CGC_data_submission
MethodGene