WormMine: Gene WBGene00010251

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00010251
• Gene Name: sta-2
• Sequence Name: F58E6.1
• Brief Description: sta-2 encodes a member of the STAT family of transcription factors; STA-2 functions cell autonomously together with the SNF-12 sodium-dependent neurotransmitter symporter to regulate expression of antimicrobial peptides in the epidermis following fungal infection and physical wounding; STA-2 physically interacts with SNF-12; a sta-2 reporter gene is expressed in the epidermis throughout development and in the seam cells, intestine, phasmid socket cells, excretory duct cell, vulval cells and the dorsal rectal cells; STA-2 localizes to both the nucleus and the cytoplasm; in the epidermal cytoplasm, STA-2 colocalizes with SNF-12 in endocytic-like vesicles near the apical cell surface.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Predicted to enable DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific and RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Involved in defense response to fungus; positive regulation of antifungal peptide production; and response to wounding. Located in several cellular components, including apical part of cell; endocytic vesicle; and hemidesmosome. Part of hemidesmosome associated protein complex. Expressed in hypodermis; interfacial epithelial cell; intestine; and vulva. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including Alzheimer's disease; autoimmune disease (multiple); carcinoma (multiple); and hematologic cancer (multiple). Is an ortholog of several human genes including STAT1 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 1); STAT3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3); and STAT4 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 4).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: V :2.14428 ±0.003978
• Length (nt): 3126

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00010251

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:F58E6.1.1	F58E6.1.1	1821	V: 9741206-9744331

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:F58E6.1	F58E6.1	1704	V: 9741223-9741342

10 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00095190
• WBRNAi00001833
• WBRNAi00049009
• WBRNAi00015982
• WBRNAi00093455
• WBRNAi00093457
• WBRNAi00115101
• WBRNAi00095189
• WBRNAi00095188
• WBRNAi00110863

33 Allele

• gk963301
• gk964351
• gk962860
• gk963365
• gk963364
• WBVar01863612
• WBVar01863610
• WBVar01863611
• WBVar01710393
• gk243989
• gk243990
• gk243991
• ttTi8855
• ok1860
• st12242
• gk718078
• gk864137
• gk496147
• gk929411
• gk715497
• gk595701
• fr67
• gk595251
• gk585759
• gk887876
• WBVar01461288
• gk382433
• WBVar01461287
• gk456856
• gk564208

1 Chromosome

• WormBase ID: V
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Length (nt): 20924180

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00010251
• Start: 9741206
• End: 9744331
• 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_chrV_9744332..9744805
• Length (nt): 474
• Chromosome Location: V: 9744332-9744805
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

168 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in ogt-1(ok1474) neuronal cells isolated by FACs comparing to in FACs isolated neuronal cells from wild type.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066485:ogt-1(ok1474)_upregulated_neuron
	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
	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
	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
	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 decreased 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_downregulated
	Genes that are significantly up regulated in tdp-1(ok803) poly(A) RNA-seq verses in N2.	DESeq v1.14, with cut-off p-value < 0.05 and FDR < 0.1.	WBPaper00046012:tdp-1(ok803)_upregulated
	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 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 that showed significantly increased expression in day 1 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva glp-1(e2141) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-1-adult_vs_L4_upregulated_glp-1(e2141)
	Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 0_0 expressed in seam.	scVI 0.6.0	WBPaper00065841:0_0
	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 in sin-3(tm1276) comparing to in N2.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00061203:sin-3(tm1276)_upregulated
	Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 21_1 with unidentified tissue expression pattern.	scVI 0.6.0	WBPaper00065841:21_1
Bacteria diet: Comamonas aquatica DA1887 vs. E. coli OP50	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in N2 L3 larva animals fed with Comamonas aquatica strain DA1887, comparing to in N2 L3 larva animals fed with E. coli OP50.	edgeR, fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00067248:C.aquatica_downregulated_L3
starvation 12 hours	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in dissected intestines of N2 L1 larva that were starved for 12 hours, comparing to fed animals.	EdgeR, FDR < 0.05, fold change >= 2.	WBPaper00067259:starvation_upregulated_intestine
	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
	Genes that showed significantly increased expression in daf-2(e1370);hel-1(gk148684) comparing to in hel-1(gk148684)	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_hel-1(gk148684)-background
	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 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 signifcantly increased expression in ubr-5(miy31) injected with empty vector comparing to in N2 animals injected with empty vector at L1 larva stage and collected at L4 larva stage.	FDR < 0.05, fold change > 2	WBPaper00067368:ubr-5(miy31)_upregulated_N2
	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
	Transcripts enriched in PHso according to single cell RNAseq.	Genes that pass the Bonferroni threshold for multiple comparisons (q < 0.05) are significantly enriched.	WBPaper00061651:PHso_enriched
	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 1-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite npr-8(ok1439) animals grown at 20C, comparing to in N2 animals.	CuffDiff, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065096:npr-8(ok1439)_upregulated_Day1_20C
	Genes that showed oscillating mRNA expression level throughout the 16 hour time courses from L3 larva to young adult.	The following three lines of R code were used to perform the classification: increasing <-2*amplitude-PC1 < -1.7; oscillating <-!increasing & (amplitude > 0.55); flat <-!increasing & !oscillating; Note that the amplitude of a sinusoidal wave corresponds to only half the fold change between trough and peak.	WBPaper00044736:oscillating_dev_expression
	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

7 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2035100
• 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: Expr9296
• Subcellular Localization: In worms expressing a GFP::STA-2 fusion reporter in the epidermis (pcol-12::GFP::STA-2), a fluorescent signal was clearly seen in the nucleus but also in bands underneath the cuticle and in some vesicles. Equivalent patterns were also obtained when STA-2 was tagged with DsRed2 or mCherry and when the fusion protein was expressed under the control of the sta-2 promoter (psta- 2::GFP::STA-2). As the different chimeric proteins were functional, the localization seen with these reporter proteins is likely to reflect the distribution of the endogenous protein. Using the mCherry::STA-2 construct,we found that the fluorescent signal colocalized with a clathrin heavy-chain CHC-1::GFP reporter protein, a specific marker of newly formed endocytic vesicles (Greener et al., 2001; Sato et al., 2009).

• Primary Identifier: Expr1152745
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr1023653
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

• Primary Identifier: Expr1034471
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr2016952
• 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: Expr9295
• Pattern: Strong sta-2 expression was observed in the epidermis throughout development. There was also an expression in the seam cells, the intestine, the phasmid socket cells, and the excretory duct cell, as well as cells in the vulva and the dorsal rectal cells.

27 GO Annotation

26 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00010251
• Start: 9741206
• End: 9744331
• Strand: 1

27 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 3126

1 Sequence Ontology Term

• Name: gene

4 Strains

• WBStrain00021988
• WBStrain00021985
• WBStrain00032243
• WBStrain00047518

1 Upstream Intergenic Region

• WormBase ID: intergenic_region_chrV_9741076..9741205
• Length (nt): 130
• Chromosome Location: V: 9741076-9741205
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans