WormMine: Gene WBGene00006869

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00006869
• Gene Name: vab-2
• Sequence Name: Y37E11AR.6
• Brief Description: The vab-2 gene encodes an ephrin molecule related to human ephrin B2 (OMIM:600527); VAB-2, expressed primarily in neuronal cells, is a ligand for the VAB-1 ephrin receptor and plays a role in embryonic cell movements, epidermal morphogenesis during later embryogenesis, and oocyte maturation; VAB-2 synergizes with PTP-3, a LAR-like receptor tyrosine phosphatase, to regulate morphogenesis.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables ephrin receptor binding activity. Involved in ephrin receptor signaling pathway and epidermis morphogenesis. Located in axon and external side of plasma membrane. Expressed in several structures, including anterior ganglion; neuroblasts; neurons; somatic nervous system; and ventral ganglion (post). Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in craniofrontonasal syndrome; dysostosis; and stomach cancer. Is an ortholog of human EFNB1 (ephrin B1).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: IV :-2.29351 ±0.019142
• Length (nt): 5632

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00006869

Genomics

2 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:Y37E11AR.6a.1	Y37E11AR.6a.1	1083	IV: 3761195-3766826
Transcript:Y37E11AR.6b.1	Y37E11AR.6b.1	525	IV: 3761432-3762559

Other

2 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:Y37E11AR.6a	Y37E11AR.6a	840	IV: 3761432-3761511
CDS:Y37E11AR.6b	Y37E11AR.6b	525	IV: 3761432-3761511

6 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00055914
• WBRNAi00064657
• WBRNAi00020222
• WBRNAi00020228
• WBRNAi00036800
• WBRNAi00064737

103 Allele

• gk963722
• sy167
• WBVar01542839
• WBVar00187864
• WBVar00187865
• WBVar00571648
• WBVar00571647
• e961
• otn3167
• h14204
• e141
• e96
• e1208
• tm5766
• ju1
• WBVar01838993
• gk796619
• WBVar00270471
• gk752057
• gk863973
• gk870928
• gk372176
• gk621414
• gk899038
• gk642757
• WBVar01803701
• gk749898
• gk613104
• gk689279
• gk526382

1 Chromosome

• WormBase ID: IV
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Length (nt): 17493829

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00006869
• Start: 3761195
• End: 3766826
• Strand: -1

4 Data Sets

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

1 Downstream Intergenic Region

• WormBase ID: intergenic_region_chrIV_3759941..3761194
• Length (nt): 1254
• Chromosome Location: IV: 3759941-3761194
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

149 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in L1 neural cells comparing to in adult neural cells.	DESeq2 (v1.18.1) fold change > 2, P-adj<0.05, using BenjaminiHochberg correction.	WBPaper00060811:L1_vs_adult_upregulated_neural
	Transcripts expressed in neuronal cells, by analyzingfluorescence-activated cell sorted (FACS) neurons.	DESeq. False discovry rate (FDR) < 0.1.	WBPaper00048988:neuron_expressed
	mRNAs that showed decreased expression in 1 cell mebryo comparing to in oocyte, according to RNAseq analysis.	Gaussian error propagation. As cutoff for the up-regulated genes authors used log2 fold change > 1 and P < 0.05 and as cutoff for the down-regulated genes authors used log2 fold change < -1 and P < 0.05.	WBPaper00045420:fertilization_downregulated_transcript
	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
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after animals were treated with 50uM Rifampicin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Rifampicin_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after animals were treated with 100uM Rapamycin and 50mM Metformin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Rapamycin-Metformin_upregulated
	Transcripts expressed in intestine, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pges-1-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:intestine_expressed
	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 after four-day-old young adult worms were placed on NGM plates seeded with OP50 in the presence 5% Agaro-oligosaccharides(AGO) for 24 h, comparing to animals grown in the absence of AGO.	Fold change > 2.	WBPaper00064306:Agaro-oligosaccharides_upregulated
	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
	Maternal class (M): genes that are called present in at least one of the three PC6 replicates.	A modified Welch F statistic was used for ANOVA. For each gene, regressed error estimates were substituted for observed error estimates. The substitution is justified by the lack of consistency among the most and least variable genes at each time point. Regressed error estimates were abundance-dependent pooled error estimates that represented a median error estimate from a window of genes of similar abundance to the gene of interest. A randomization test was used to compute the probability Pg of the observed F statistic for gene g under the null hypothesis that developmental time had no effect on expression. P-values were not corrected for multiple testing.	[cgc5767]:expression_class_M
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in aak-1(tm1944);aak-2(ok524) animals comparing to in N2.	DEseq 1.18.0, adjusted p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00056471:aak-1(tm1944);aak-2(ok524)_upregulated
	Top 300 transcripts enriched in ABalppppppa, ABpraaapppa according to single cell RNAseq.	Top 300 enriched transcripts were determined by log2.ratio of the tpm in the cell type vs the tpm in the other cells * the log2 of the cell.type tpm.	WBPaper00061340:ASE_parent
	Transcripts that showed significantly changed expression in 6-day post-L4 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in 1-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite animals.	Sleuth	WBPaper00051558:aging_regulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in sin-3(tm1276) comparing to in N2 at early embryo when there were only 3 -5 eggs in the adult.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, adjusted p-value < 0.01	WBPaper00058598:sin-3(tm1276)_downregulated
	Genes with increased RNA expression after 24 hours rotenone treatment	EdgeR provides statistical routines for determining differential expression in digital gene expression data using a model based on the negative binomial distribution. The resulting p-values were adjusted using the Benjamini and Hochbergs approach for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Transcripts with an adjusted p-value smaller 0.05 were assigned as differentially expressed.	WBPaper00044426:rotenone_24h_upregulated
Gamma irradiation 100 mGY per hour for 72 hours since L1 larva.	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after exposure to 100mGy per hour gamma irradiation from L1 to day 1 adult hermaphrodite stage.	DESeq2, FDR <= 0.05, log2 fold change >= 0.3 or <= -0.3.	WBPaper00058958:100mGy-irradiation-72h_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in set-2(tm1630) animals at embryo stage, comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2 (v2.1.8.3) was used to determine DE genes and to generate principal component and scatter plots. DE genes with FDR < 0.05 were analysed using g:Profiler with Bonferroni correction.	WBPaper00060014:set-2(tm1630)_downregulated
	Transcripts detected in germline isolated from day-1 adult hermaphrodite animals.	All three experiments have CPM >= 1.	WBPaper00067147:germline_expressed
Bacteria: B.thuringiensis	Transcripts in N2 animals that were significantly differentially expressed at least for one time point and one pathogenic strain Bt247 and Bt679 compared to the non pathogenic strain Bt407.	Cuffdiff	WBPaper00060358:B.thuringiensis_pathogen_regulated_N2
	Genes regulated by DAF-12, according to whole transcriptome profiling to compare genome-wide regulatory influences of DPY-21 and SET-4 to those of the key transcription factors controlling dauer arrest in eak-7;akt-1 animals, DAF-16 and DAF-12.	Authors identified genes differentially expressed between wild-type and eak-7;akt-1 double mutant animals [fold change >= 1.5 and false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05]. Authors then compared the transcriptomes of eak-7;akt-1 double mutants to those of eak-7;akt-1 animals harboring mutations in dpy-21, set-4, daf-16, or daf-12, and identified genes that are differentially expressed in the opposite direction as in wild-type relative to eak-7;akt-1. Annotated gene expression data output from CuffDiff v2.2.1 was read into R version 3.2.1 for six comparisons: eak-7;akt-1 compared to (1) wild-type, (2) daf-16(mu86);eak-7;akt-1, (3) daf-12;eak-7;akt-1, (4) set-4(n4600);eak-7;akt-1, (5) set-4(dp268);eak-7;akt-1, and (6) dpy-21;eak-7;akt-1. Authors filtered genes by the following criteria: (1) status = OK for wild-type vs. eak-7;akt-1, (2) fold change (FC) >= 1.5 or FC <= 1/1.5 for wild-type vs. eak-7;akt-1 and (3) FDR < 0.05 for at least two separate comparisons.	WBPaper00050801:DAF-12_dauer_regulome
	Genes regulated by DAF-16, according to whole transcriptome profiling to compare genome-wide regulatory influences of DPY-21 and SET-4 to those of the key transcription factors controlling dauer arrest in eak-7;akt-1 animals, DAF-16 and DAF-12.	Authors identified genes differentially expressed between wild-type and eak-7;akt-1 double mutant animals [fold change >= 1.5 and false discovery rate (FDR) < 0.05]. Authors then compared the transcriptomes of eak-7;akt-1 double mutants to those of eak-7;akt-1 animals harboring mutations in dpy-21, set-4, daf-16, or daf-12, and identified genes that are differentially expressed in the opposite direction as in wild-type relative to eak-7;akt-1. Annotated gene expression data output from CuffDiff v2.2.1 was read into R version 3.2.1 for six comparisons: eak-7;akt-1 compared to (1) wild-type, (2) daf-16(mu86);eak-7;akt-1, (3) daf-12;eak-7;akt-1, (4) set-4(n4600);eak-7;akt-1, (5) set-4(dp268);eak-7;akt-1, and (6) dpy-21;eak-7;akt-1. Authors filtered genes by the following criteria: (1) status = OK for wild-type vs. eak-7;akt-1, (2) fold change (FC) >= 1.5 or FC <= 1/1.5 for wild-type vs. eak-7;akt-1 and (3) FDR < 0.05 for at least two separate comparisons.	WBPaper00050801:DAF-16_dauer_regulome
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in nhl-2(ok818) comparing to in N2 at 25C.	EdgeR, FDR < 0.05, fold change < 0.5.	WBPaper00055971:nhl-2(ok818)_25C_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in animals lacking P granules by RNAi experiments targeting pgl-1, pgl-3, glh-1 and glh-4, and unc-119-GFP(+), comparing to in control animals, at 2-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite stage.	DESeq2, Benjamini-Hochberg multiple hypothesis corrected p-value < 0.05 and fold change > 2.	WBPaper00050859:upregulated_P-granule(-)GFP(+)_vs_control_day2-adult
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in animals lacking P granules by RNAi experiments targeting pgl-1, pgl-3, glh-1 and glh-4, and unc-119-GFP(-), comparing to in control animals, at 2-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite stage.	DESeq2, Benjamini-Hochberg multiple hypothesis corrected p-value < 0.05 and fold change > 2.	WBPaper00050859:upregulated_P-granule(-)GFP(-)_vs_control_day2-adult
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in pgl-1(ct131) animals (isolated from SS0002[pgl-1(ct131)him-3(e1147)], comparing to in control animals SS1174, at 1-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite stage.	DESeq2, Benjamini-Hochberg multiple hypothesis corrected p-value < 0.05 and fold change > 2.	WBPaper00050859:upregulated_pgl-1(ct131)_vs_control_day1-adult
	Transcripts that showed significantly altered expression after 24 hour exposure to nitroguanidine (NQ).	Multivariate permutation tests with random variance model implemented in BRB-Array Tools version 4.5 were performed to infer differentially expressed genes (DEGs). One thousand random permutations were computed per chemical class (i.e., a group of 16 arrays or samples). The confidence level of false discovery rate assessment was set at 80%, and the maximum allowed portion of false-positive genes was 10%.	WBPaper00055899:nitroguanidine_regulated
	Genes expressed in N2.	Expressed transcripts were identified on the basis of a Present call in 3 out of 4 N2 experiments as determined by Affymetrix MAS 5.0.	WBPaper00025141:N2_Expressed_Genes
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression at 5-days-post L4 adult N2 hermaphrodites comparing to 1-day-post L4 adult N2 hermaphrodites.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00065835:Day5_vs_Day1_upregulated
	Genes upregulated in dcr-1(-/-) adult animals by at least 1.5 fold and P < 0.01, as determined by a multisample t-test and the Benjamini and Hochberg false discovery rate correction.	Statistical t-test: P < 0.05 for rde-4(-/-) and rde-1(-/-) analyses; P < 0.01 for dcr-1(-/-) analysis with a threshold of 1.5-fold misregulation.	WBPaper00029437:dcr-1_upregulated

8 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr1106
• Remark: Postembryonic expressed pattern was not described.
• Pattern: VAB-2/EFN-1 expression first detected at the 100-cell stage in several cells in the anterior and posterior. After gastrulation VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed in lateral cells, corresponding to neuroblasts. During epidermal enclosure VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed in neurons in the midanterior of the embryo, beneath the leading cells of the epidermis, and in several tail neurons. At later stages VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed in the processes of many neurons, and in the pharynx. Thus, VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed mostly in the developing nervous system and not in epidermal cells before or during epidermal enclosure.
• Subcellular Localization: VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed in the processes of many neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1108
• Remark: Postembryonic expressed pattern was not described. Reporter gene fusion type not specified. vab-2 = efn-1 --WS59.
• Pattern: VAB-2/EFN-1 was expressed in adjacent neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr11225
• Pattern: EFN-1::GFP is expressed widely in anterior neurons in mid-embryogenesis, but like VAB-1 becomes more restricted during larval stages. In larvae, EFN-1::GFP was not observed in amphid neurons but was seen in a set of ventral neurons including AIM, AIY, and AVK.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2036086
• 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: Expr1032911
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr2017950
• 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: Expr1159434
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr1016061
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

11 GO Annotation

34 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00006869
• Start: 3761195
• End: 3766826
• Strand: -1

11 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 5632

1 Sequence Ontology Term

• Name: gene

5 Strains

• WBStrain00005375
• WBStrain00005671
• WBStrain00008621
• WBStrain00004098
• WBStrain00005393

1 Upstream Intergenic Region

• WormBase ID: intergenic_region_chrIV_3766827..3784209
• Length (nt): 17383
• Chromosome Location: IV: 3766827-3784209
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans