WormMine: Gene WBGene00003991

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00003991
• Gene Name: pfn-3
• Sequence Name: K03E6.6
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Predicted to enable actin monomer binding activity. Involved in muscle thin filament assembly. Located in striated muscle dense body. Expressed in body wall musculature.
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: X :-18.7365 ±0.004034
• Length (nt): 1220

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00003991

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:K03E6.6.1	K03E6.6.1	521	X: 1079430-1080649

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:K03E6.6	K03E6.6	381	X: 1079546-1079643

5 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00049838
• WBRNAi00033920
• WBRNAi00098009
• WBRNAi00022831
• WBRNAi00016547

29 Allele

• gk963725
• WBVar01600422
• WBVar01600423
• WBVar00074693
• WBVar00074692
• WBVar00074691
• WBVar01979159
• gk393233
• gk492885
• gk883524
• gk341231
• gk422000
• gk381892
• gk410694
• gk419317
• gk698341
• gk791043
• gk725079
• gk607324
• gk580259
• gk741092
• gk619805
• gk874403
• gk822413
• gk270506
• gk270505
• gk270504
• gk270503
• tm1362

1 Chromosome

• WormBase ID: X
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Length (nt): 17718942

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00003991
• Start: 1079430
• End: 1080649
• Strand: -1

4 Data Sets

• WormBaseAcedbConverter
• GO Annotation data set
• C. elegans genomic annotations (GFF3 Gene)
• Panther orthologue and paralogue predictions

0 Downstream Intergenic Region

216 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Genes with expression altered >= 3-fold in dpy-10(e128) mutants.	Data across the wild type series was analyzed using the Significance analysis of Microarrays (SAM) algorithm (to calculate the False Discovery Rate (FDR)).	WBPaper00035873:dpy-10_regulated
	Transcripts expressed in neuronal cells, by analyzingfluorescence-activated cell sorted (FACS) neurons.	DESeq. False discovry rate (FDR) < 0.1.	WBPaper00048988:neuron_expressed
adult vs dauer larva	Transcripts that showed differential expression in adult vs dauer lava in N2 animals at 20C.	N.A.	WBPaper00050488:adult_vs_dauer_regulated_N2_20C
	TGF- Dauer pathway adult transcriptional targets. Results obtained by comparing the microarray results of the dauer-constitutive mutants daf-7(e1372), daf-7(m62), and daf-1(m40) with dauer-defective mutants daf-3(mgDf90), daf-5(e1386), and daf-7(e1372);daf-3(mgDf90) double mutants at the permissive temperature, 20C, on the first day of adulthood.	SAM	WBPaper00031040:TGF-beta_adult_upregulated
Osmotic stress	Transcripts that showed significantly altered expression with 500 mM salt (NaCl) vs 100 mM salt when food was present	DESeq(version 1.10.1), FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00050726:OsmoticStress_regulated_Food
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (embryonic 24hr reference).	A Mann-Whitney U test with an empirical background model and FDR correction for multiple testing was used to detect expressed transcripts (Benjamini and Hochberg 1995). Genes and TARs with an FDR <= 0.05 were reported as expressed above background. Authors detected differentially expressed transcripts using a method based on linear models. Genes and TARs were called differentially expressed if the FDR was <= 0.05 and the fold change (FC) >= 2.0. To more strictly correct for potential false-positives resulting from multiple sample comparisons, authors divided individual FDR estimates by the number of samplesor sample comparisons, respectively. This resulted in an adjusted FDR of 1.3 * 0.0001 for expression above background and of 7.4 * 0.0001 for differential expression. Authors called genes selectively enriched in a given tissue if they met the following requirements: (1) enriched expression in a given tissue (FDR <= 0.05 and FC >= 2.0), (2) fold change versus reference among the upper 40% of the positive FC range observed for this gene across all tissues, and (3) fold-change entropy among the lower 40% of the distribution observed for all genes.	WBPaper00037950:bodywall-muscle_L1-larva_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after animals were treated with 50uM Rifampicin and 250uM Allantoin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Rifampicin-Allantoin_upregulated
Bacteria infection: Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. Exposure for 16 hours.	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in N2 after animals were exposed to E. faecalis OG1RF for 16 hours comparing to exposure to E. Coli OP50.	Cuffcompare and Cuffdiff	WBPaper00056090:E.faecalis_downregulated_N2
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in hsf-1(sy441) vs. in N2 day 1 adults without heat shock.	edgeR, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00066900:hsf-1(sy441)_upregulated
	Proteins interacting with NHR-49-GFP according to co-IP and LC-MS.	N.A.	WBPaper00064071:NHR-49_interacting
	Transcripts expressed in body muscle, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pmyo-3-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:body-muscle_expressed
	Transcripts expressed in GABAergic neuron, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Punc-47-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:GABAergic-neuron_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression at 11-days-post L4 adult N2 hermaphrodites comparing to 1-day-post L4 adult N2 hermaphrodites.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00065835:Day11_vs_Day1_downregulated
	Transcripts expressed in hypodermis, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pdpy-7-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:hypodermis_expressed
	Transcripts expressed in NMDA neuron, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pnmr-1-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:NMDA-neuron_expressed
	Genes up regulated in alg-1(gk214) comparing to in N2.	Differential expression was assessed using an empirical Bayes statistics using the eBayes function.	WBPaper00040823:alg-1(gk214)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in prx-5(RNAi) animals.	Fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00060911:prx-5(RNAi)_downregulated_mRNA
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in day 3 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva daf-16(mu86);glp-1(e2141) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-3-adult_vs_L4_downregulated_daf-16(mu86);glp-1(e2141)
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in day 3 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva glp-1(e2141) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-3-adult_vs_L4_downregulated_glp-1(e2141)
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in rrf-3(pk1426) comparing to in N2 at embryo stage.	DESeq2v 1.18.1, fold change > 1.5, adjusted p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00056169:rrf-3(pk1426)_upregulated_embryo
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after 24 hours of induction of human beta Amyloid at young adult stage	A 2-fold change in expression level and a false discovery rate analog of p < 0.05.	WBPaper00064130:Beta-Amyloid_24h_upregulated_mRNA
Bacteria infection: Bacillus thuringiensis	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in N2 animals infected by bacteria BMB171/Cry5Ba, an acrystalliferous Bt mutant BMB171 transformed with toxin gene cry5Ba on the shuttle vector pHT304, comparing to N2 animals infected by BMB171/pHT304.	N.A.	WBPaper00064229:B.thuringiensis-Cry5Ba_upregulated
Bacteria infection: Bacillus thuringiensis	mRNAs that showed significantly decreased expression after pathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis infections comparing to non pathogenic BT (BT247(1 to 10 mix) vs BT407 12h), according to RNAseq.	Cuffdiff, ajusted p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00046497:B.thuringiensis_0.1mix_downregulated_12h
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in sin-3(tm1276) comparing to in N2.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00061203:sin-3(tm1276)_upregulated
Bacteria infection: Bacillus thuringiensis	mRNAs that showed significantly decreased expression after pathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis infections comparing to non pathogenic BT (BT247(1 to 2 mix) vs BT407 12h), according to RNAseq.	Cuffdiff, ajusted p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00046497:B.thuringiensis_0.5mix_downregulated_12h
	mRNAs that showed increased expression in P-granule RNAi animales (simultaneously targeting pgl-1, pgl-3, glh-1 and glh-4) comparing to in control RNAi animals. Set 1 transcripts were defined as P-value < 0.05 and fold change > 2.	DESeq was used. Fold change between the average of the four control replicates and the average of the four test replicates was used to calculate the significance using a negative binomial distribution. An adjusted P-value was calculated using the Benjamini-Hochberg method for multiple testing correction.	WBPaper00046805:P-granule-RNAi_upregulated_Set1
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in N2 animals exposed to 0.1mM Paraquat from hatching to reaching adult stage.	DESeq2 version 1.22.2, p < 0.05	WBPaper00064716:paraquat_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in daf-2(e1370) comparing to in control animals.	NOIseq(v2.34.0), fold change > = 1.5, Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were defined as having a probability of differentialexpression > 95%.	WBPaper00064727:daf-2(e1370)_upregulated
Bacteria infection: Staphylococcus aureus	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in animals experimentally colonised by a wild microbiota community and infected by the widespread animal pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, comparing to animals not colonized by microbiota and not infected by pathogen.	DeSeq2 (v. 1.42.0), Wald analyses testing against a null hypothesis of < |1.5|-fold change in gene expression between treatments (BenjaminiHochberg adjusted false detection rate of p <= 0.05.	WBPaper00067479:Microbiota-Pathogen_vs_control_downregulated
Bacteria infection: Staphylococcus aureus	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in animals experimentally colonised by a wild microbiota community and infected by the widespread animal pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, comparing to animals colonized by microbiota but not infected by pathogen.	DeSeq2 (v. 1.42.0), Wald analyses testing against a null hypothesis of < |1.5|-fold change in gene expression between treatments (BenjaminiHochberg adjusted false detection rate of p <= 0.05.	WBPaper00067479:Microbiota-Pathogen_vs_Microbiota_downregulated

8 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr1031907
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr6318
• Remark: Strain: BC14851
• Reporter Gene: [far-3::gfp] transcriptional fusion. PCR products were amplified using primer A: 5' [CAACAACGATTTGACAACGACT] 3' and primer B 5' [AGACCACGAGATGTTTTCGTTT] 3'.
• Pattern: Larval Expression: intestine; rectal gland cells

• Primary Identifier: Expr3807
• Remark: Although anti-PFN-2 and anti-PFN-3 antibodies showed specific reactivity for respective isoform on Western blot of total C. elegans lysates, they had some reactivity to null mutants in immunofluorescent staining. Therefore, these antibodies were additionally adsorbed to acetone fixed powders of pfn-2 and pfn-3 null mutant worms respectively to ascertain the specificity of these antibodies. These treatments significantly reduced nonspecific staining of the respective null mutant. The patterns of expression and localization of PFN-3 in the pfn-2 were indistinguishable from those in wild type.
• Pattern: Staining for PFN-3 was negative in early embryos but detected specifically in body wall muscle cells from the 1.5-fold stage (~350 min after the first cell division) and persisted through embryogenesis. Also expressed in adult worms.
• Subcellular Localization: Immunostaining showed PFN-3 was specifically expressed in body wall muscle and localized in a striking dot-like fashion in the dense bodies. When the dense bodies were viewed vertically to the plasma membrane, PFN-3 colocalized with a-actinin and vinculin. However, when they were observed laterally, PFN-3 partially colocalized with a-actinin and localized adjacent to vinculin. Since vinculin is closer to the plasma membrane than that of a-actinin in the dense bodies, PFN-3 is located at the cytoplasmic tips of the dense bodies. As expected, these dot-like staining patterns of PFN-3 were absent in the pfn-3 null mutants.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1153551
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr1014538
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

• Primary Identifier: Expr2033088
• Pattern: Single cell embryonic expression. Only cell types with an expression fraction of greater 0.2 of the maximum expressed fraction are labeled (Full data can be downloaded from http://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/packer2019/). The colors represent the broad cell class to which the cell type has been assigned. The size of the point is proportional to the log2 of the numbers of cells in the dataset of that cell type. Interactive visualizations are available as a web app (https://cello.shinyapps.io/celegans/) and can also be installed as an R package (https://github.com/qinzhu/VisCello.celegans).

• Primary Identifier: Expr2014853
• Pattern: Single cell embryonic expression. Only cell types with an expression fraction of greater 0.2 of the maximum expressed fraction are labeled (Full data can be downloaded from http://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/packer2019/). The colors represent the broad cell class to which the cell type has been assigned. The size of the point is proportional to the log2 of the numbers of cells in the dataset of that cell type. Interactive visualizations are available as a web app (https://cello.shinyapps.io/celegans/) and can also be installed as an R package (https://github.com/qinzhu/VisCello.celegans).

• Primary Identifier: Expr3811
• Remark: The patterns of expression and localization of PFN-3 in the pfn-2 were indistinguishable from those in wild type.
• Pattern: The pfn-3 promoter::GFP fusion construct yielded no expression, suggesting that an additional enhancer element may be required for its expression or an inhibitory cis-element may be contained in the construct.

10 GO Annotation

2 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00003991
• Start: 1079430
• End: 1080649
• Strand: -1

10 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 1220

1 Sequence Ontology Term

• Name: gene

2 Strains

• WBStrain00029954
• WBStrain00003252

1 Upstream Intergenic Region

• WormBase ID: intergenic_region_chrX_1080650..1084216
• Length (nt): 3567
• Chromosome Location: X: 1080650-1084216
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans