e261 : poor backward movement forward better; thin; vulva variably abnormal often protrusive sometimes ruptured; many postembryonic lineage abnormalities resulting from variable failures in cytokinesis; gonad lineages sometimes defective; males have very abnormal tail anatomy. ES2 ME0. NA2 (e1005 (pka unc-88)).
See unc-59.
See also e1005, e1465, n391
[C.elegansII] e261 : poor backward movement, forward better; thin; vulva variably abnormal, often protrusive, sometimes ruptured; many postembryonic lineage abnormalities resulting from variable failures in cytokinesis; gonad lineages sometimes defective; variable defects in neuroanatomy; males have very abnormal tail anatomy. ES2 ME0. OA3: e1005 (pka unc-88), e1465, n391. [Brenner 1974; White et al. 1982; MT]
unc-59, by alternative splicing, encodes two septin isoforms required (like the septins UNC-61A/B) for normal axonal migration, distal tip cell migration, and postembryonic cytokinesis (at the cellular level) and for normal locomotion and formation of the postembryonic vulva, somatic gonad, and male tail (at the organismal level); both UNC-59 and UNC-61A/B are dispensable for embryonic cytokinesis and development, but are thought to be required for all postembryonic cytokinesis; UNC-59 and UNC-61A/B depend on each other for localization to the cytokinetic furrow.
Predicted to enable GTPase activity and molecular adaptor activity. Involved in egg-laying behavior; locomotion; and post-embryonic development. Located in cleavage furrow and midbody. Expressed in several structures, including buccal cavity; distal tip cell; germ line; pharynx; and sperm. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease. Is an ortholog of human SEPTIN7 (septin 7).