WormMine: Gene WBGene00010453

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00010453
• Gene Name: fozi-1
• Sequence Name: K01B6.1
• Brief Description: fozi-1 encodes an unusual zinc-finger protein that has two C2H2 zinc-finger motifs that probably mediate transcriptional regulation along with a glutamine-rich region and a vestigial formin homology 2 (FH2) domain that has lost its ability to polymerize actin but retained its ability to dimerize; during postembryonic development, FOZI-1 acts with MAB-5 and redundantly with HLH-1/CeMyoD to autonomously specify coelomocyte and striated body wall muscle fates; in addition, fozi-1 is required for the fully asymmetrical phenotypic distinction of ASER cells from ASEL cells; fozi-1 mutant animals variably express flp-4, gcy-6, gcy-7 and lim-6, genes normally restricted to ASEL, in ASER as well, while maintaining expression of ASER-specific genes; ectopic FOZI-1 expression in ASEL can suppress lim-6 expression; fozi-1 genetically interacts with several regulatory proteins and miRNAs; FOZI-1 is a nuclear protein that is expressed in neuronal lineages beginning at the 2-fold stage of embryogenesis, and then in neurons and cells derived from the M mesoblast during larval development; expression in the M lineage corresponds to cells that will generate coelomocytes and body wall muscles and is not seen in the sex myoblasts (SMs); FOZI-1 expression in the M lineage requires the Hox co-factor CEH-20.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Predicted to enable actin filament binding activity. Involved in mesodermal cell fate specification and positive regulation of mesodermal cell fate specification. Located in nucleus. Expressed in several structures, including M.dla; amphid neurons; body wall muscle cell from M lineage; coelomocyte; and somatic nervous system. Is an ortholog of human FMNL1 (formin like 1).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: III :0.391746 ±0.007582
• Length (nt): 14896

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00010453

Genomics

3 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:K01B6.1.2	K01B6.1.2	3070	III: 9281780-9296675
Transcript:K01B6.1.1	K01B6.1.1	3013	III: 9281781-9296668
Transcript:K01B6.1.3	K01B6.1.3	3074	III: 9281781-9296675

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:K01B6.1	K01B6.1	2199	III: 9293205-9293414

8 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00049599
• WBRNAi00016382
• WBRNAi00006025
• WBRNAi00033810
• WBRNAi00065443
• WBRNAi00092976
• WBRNAi00101794
• WBRNAi00101793

221 Allele

• gk964518
• gk963887
• otn11119
• otn11120
• otn8590
• otn9818
• otn13118
• otn13119
• WBVar00070653
• WBVar00070658
• WBVar00070663
• WBVar00070668
• WBVar00070633
• WBVar00070638
• WBVar00070643
• WBVar00070648
• WBVar00070628
• tm7032
• gk435740
• gk725494
• gk439590
• gk444108
• gk669582
• gk619653
• gk778615
• gk828930
• gk766658
• gk783692
• gk820044
• gk585151

1 Chromosome

• WormBase ID: III
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Length (nt): 13783801

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00010453
• Start: 9281780
• End: 9296675
• 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

209 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 of coding genes that showed significantly decreased expression in muscle.	DESeq2 (version 1.24.0). Transcripts with a false-discovery rate adjusted p-value less than 0.05 were considered significantly differentially expressed.	WBPaper00062325:muscle_depleted_coding-RNA
	Transcripts expressed in neuronal cells, by analyzingfluorescence-activated cell sorted (FACS) neurons.	DESeq. False discovry rate (FDR) < 0.1.	WBPaper00048988:neuron_expressed
	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:all-neurons_L1-larva_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
	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
	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:AVE-neuron_L1-larva_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in csr-1a(tor159) comparing to in N2 at 25C.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00061753:csr-1(tor159)_upregulated_25C
	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 glp-1(e2141); TU3401 animals comparing to in TU3401 animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.01.	WBPaper00065993:glp-1(e2141)_upregulated
Bacteria infection: Enterococcus faecalis	Genes with increased expression after 24 hours of infection by E.faecalis Fold changes shown are pathogen vs OP50.	For RNA-seq and tiling arrays, log2 fold changes between gene expression values of infected versus uninfected nematodes were calculated. For log2 fold changes > 0.00001 the values > 81.25th percentile were defined as up-regulated and for log2 fold changes < -0.00001 the values < 18.75th percentile were defined as down-regulated.	WBPaper00038438:E.faecalis_24hr_upregulated_TilingArray
	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 expressed in hypodermis, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pdpy-7-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:hypodermis_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in atfs-1(cmh15) (null allele) animals comparing to in N2 animals at L4 larva stage.	edgeR, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00060909:atfs-1(cmh15)_downregulated
	Transcripts expressed in intestine, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pges-1-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging.	Cufflinks FPKM value >=1.	WBPaper00050990:intestine_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
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
	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
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in alg-1(gk214), comparing to in N2.	DESeq2, Fold change > 1.5.	WBPaper00051404:alg-1(gk214)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression at the intestine cells of daf-2(e1370) comparing to the intestine cells of N2 animals at L2 larva stage.	DESeq2 (version 1.24.0), fold change >= 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064632:daf-2(e1370)_upregulated_intestine
	Genes that showed significantly increased expression in daf-2(e1370) comparing to in N2.	To identify DEGs, Students t test and the log2 median ratio test were performed to compute t values and median ratios for all the annotated genes. The adjusted P values from each test were computed using an empirical distribution of the null hypothesis, which was obtained from random permutations of the samples. Finally, the adjusted P values from the individual tests were combined to compute the overall P values using Stouffers method , and genes with overall P < 0.05 and fold change > 1.5 were selected as DEGs.	WBPaper00047131:daf-2(e1370)_upregulated_N2-background
	Transcripts that showed significantly altered expression after 24 hour exposure to stavudine (d4T) starting at L1 lava stage.	DESeq	WBPaper00053302:stavudine_24h_regulated
	Transcripts depleted in purified oocyte P bodies comparing to in the whole animal.	DESeq2, FDR < 0.05, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065975:P-body_vs_WholeAnimal_depleted
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in sftb-1(cer6) deletion homozygous comparing to to in N2 animals at L4 larva stage.	DESeq2, fold change > 2	WBPaper00058725:sftb-1(cer6)_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in xrep-4(lax137).	DESeq2. Genes were selected if their p value < 0.01.	WBPaper00066062:xrep-4(lax137)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in animals with germline-specific inx-14(RNAi) comparing to in aniamls fed with control vector, both exposed to PA14 infection.	DESeq2. Differentially-expressed genes (DEG) were identified based on two criteria: FDR (False discovery rateusing Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-values) < 0.01 and absolute value of log2(Fold Change) > 1.	WBPaper00066146:germline-inx-14(RNAi)_upregulated_PA14
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in daf-2(e1370) comparing to in N2.	Differential gene expression analysis was performed using the quasi-likeli-hood framework in edgeR package v. 3.20.1 in R v. 3.4.1.	WBPaper00053810:daf-2(e1370)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in isp-1(qm150) comparing to in N2.	Differential gene expression analysis was performed using the quasi-likeli-hood framework in edgeR package v. 3.20.1 in R v. 3.4.1.	WBPaper00053810:isp-1(qm150)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in nuo-6(qm200) comparing to in N2.	Differential gene expression analysis was performed using the quasi-likeli-hood framework in edgeR package v. 3.20.1 in R v. 3.4.1.	WBPaper00053810:nuo-6(qm200)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in pie-1(ne4443[PIE-1-Degron-GFP])	DESeq2. Differentially expressed genes were defined as twofold change and adjusted p-value less than 0.05.	WBPaper00061478:pie-1(ne4433)_upregulated

10 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr64
• Remark: Legacy Data: Author "Lynch AS" "Bauer PK" "Hope IA"Date 1996-06.
• Pattern: Embryonic stages reveal nuclear staining in as yet unidentified nuclei. These are likely to be neuroblasts however, as larval stages exhibit staining in the head ganglia and the ventral nerve cord.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2011874
• 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: Expr1034559
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr2030112
• 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: Expr1010801
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

• Primary Identifier: Expr8278
• Remark: Picture: Figure 4A to 4F.
• Pattern: FOZI-1 protein was localized in nuclei of a distinct set of cells in wild-type animals. Expression of FOZI-1 was first detectable in a small subset of nuclei (probably neuroblasts) in embryos at the 2-fold stage. During larval development, FOZI-1 expression was restricted to a subset of unidentified neurons in the head (seven to 12 cells) and along the ventral nerve cord (five to seven cells). FOZI-1 was also present transiently during the L1 larval stage in cells derived from the M lineage.
• Subcellular Localization: nuclei

• Primary Identifier: Expr8279
• Remark: Picture: Figure 4G to 4R.
• Pattern: FOZI-1 expression in the M lineage was first detectable in the nuclei of M.d and M.v at the 2-M stage (in 43% of the animals stained, n=21). This expression persisted through the next three rounds of cell divisions, such that all animals (n>50) at the 4-M through to the 16-M stage showed FOZI-1 expression in the M lineage. At the 16-M stage, two cells on the ventral side (M.vlpa and M.vrpa) divide one more time to produce two SMs and two BWM precursors and reach the 18-M stage. At the 18-M stage, FOZI-1 was still detectable in the undifferentiated BWMs and CCs, but not in the SMs (n=22). This expression of FOZI-1 at the 18-M stage appeared transiently and quickly became undetectable in the differentiated BWMs and CCs. FOZI-1 expression was not detected in the SM lineage.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1153329
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr3954
• Pattern: Transgenic, adult animals display gfp expression in the nucleus of the AWC and ASE neuron class. No other expression was observed in head ganglia. Three out of four lines displayed a bias in expression to ASER; by contrast, expression in the AWCL/R neurons is bilaterally symmetric.
• Subcellular Localization: Expressed in nuclei.

• Primary Identifier: Expr3955
• Remark: Four out of four gcy-5prom::fozi-1 cDNA::gfp transgenic lines rescued the lim-6prom::gfp de-repression defects in ASER observed in fozi-1(cc607)-null mutant animals. Taken together, expression and rescue experiments with the heterologous promoter demonstrate that fozi-1 acts specifically in ASER to repress ASEL cell fate.
• Subcellular Localization: The gfp moiety confirmed that fozi-1 was expressed and localized to the nucleus of transgenic animals.

12 GO Annotation

13 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00010453
• Start: 9281780
• End: 9296675
• Strand: 1

12 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 14896

1 Sequence Ontology Term

• Name: gene

7 Strains

• WBStrain00026333
• WBStrain00026337
• WBStrain00029403
• WBStrain00029394
• WBStrain00029385
• WBStrain00029382
• WBStrain00031854

1 Upstream Intergenic Region

• WormBase ID: intergenic_region_chrIII_9276242..9281779
• Length (nt): 5538
• Chromosome Location: III: 9276242-9281779
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans