clec-60 encodes a C-type lectin protein with no obvious non-nematode orthologs; clec-60 appears to play a role in the innate immune respone to some bacterial pathogens, including Microbacterium nematophilum and Salmonella enterica; clec-60 transcription is induced 6.6-fold by infection with M. nematophilum, making it one of the most strongly infection-responsive genes (second only to tts-1); CLEC-60 is expressed throughout the larval intestine, with expression continuing in the adult adult primarily in the posterior intestinal cells int8 and int9; CLEC-60 contains an N-terminal von Willebrand factor type A domain and a C-terminal C-type lectin domain.
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.