WormMine: Gene WBGene00000222

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00000222
• Gene Name: atf-6
• Sequence Name: F45E6.2
• Brief Description: atf-6 is an ortholog of mammalian ATF6alpha, a proximal sensor requiredfor the unfolded protein response (UPR) in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER);ATF6alpha is a transmembrane protein, with a bZIP transcription factordomain in its cytosolic amino terminus that is released and activated byproteolytic cleavage upon ER stress; either ire-1 or xbp-1 deletions aresynthetically lethal with atf-6 or pek-1 deletions, producing arrest in L2larvae; RNAi of Y56A3A.2 (a S2P protease homolog) is synthetically lethalwith ire-1(RNAi), consistent with the hypothesis that Y56A3A.2 cleavesATF-6; atf-6 regulates few genes that are transcriptionally induced byUPR, but regulates roughly one-quarter of genes that require UPRconstitutively; pdr-1 transcripts are strongly upregulated in aatf-6(ok551) mutant background, but atf-6(ok551);pdr-1(lg103) doublemutants have a grossly normal phenotype ; atf-6 is dispensable for properlocalization of GLR-1 glutamate receptors.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Involved in several processes, including ATF6-mediated unfolded protein response; determination of adult lifespan; and endoplasmic reticulum calcium ion homeostasis. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Expressed in several structures, including intestine; muscle cell; pharyngeal gland cell; rectum; and vulva. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in achromatopsia 7. Is an ortholog of human ATF6 (activating transcription factor 6) and ATF6B (activating transcription factor 6 beta).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: X :7.11398 ±0.001998
• Length (nt): 3957

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00000222

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:F45E6.2.1	F45E6.2.1	2402	X: 12480948-12484904

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:F45E6.2	F45E6.2	1770	X: 12480948-12481040

18 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00001117
• WBRNAi00047416
• WBRNAi00015028
• WBRNAi00076433
• WBRNAi00063857
• WBRNAi00032310
• WBRNAi00063855
• WBRNAi00063860
• WBRNAi00077195
• WBRNAi00093283
• WBRNAi00093284
• WBRNAi00093285
• WBRNAi00093528
• WBRNAi00093530
• WBRNAi00063858
• WBRNAi00082069
• WBRNAi00087880
• WBRNAi00107443

58 Allele

• gk964260
• gk964029
• gk962707
• gk964028
• gk963810
• WBVar01759655
• WBVar01690882
• WBVar01690884
• WBVar01690883
• WBVar00083579
• WBVar01954723
• gk958062
• WBVar01987993
• WBVar01816900
• gk640814
• WBVar01835095
• tm1153
• ok551
• WBVar01621671
• gk296482
• WBVar01571540
• gk687826
• WBVar01571539
• gk539814
• gk296488
• WBVar01571538
• gk517780
• gk296487
• WBVar01571537
• gk593630

1 Chromosome

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

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000222
• Start: 12480948
• End: 12484904
• 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_chrX_12484905..12485048
• Length (nt): 144
• Chromosome Location: X: 12484905-12485048
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

126 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
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
	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 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 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
Bacteria infection: Staphylococcus aureus MW2. 4 hours of exposure.	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after N2 animals had 4 hours of infection by Staphylococcus aureus (MW2).	DEseq 1.18.0, adjusted p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00056471:S.aureus-4h_upregulated_N2
	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
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L2 all cell 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:A-class-motor-neurons_L2-larva_expressed
	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
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L3/L4 all cell 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:dopaminergic-neurons_L3-L4-larva_expressed
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L2 all cell 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:excretory-cell_L2-larva_expressed
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L2 all cell 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:GABAergic-motor-neurons_L2-larva_expressed
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L3/L4 all cell 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:hypodermis_L3-L4-larva_expressed
	Genes that showed expression levels higher than the corresponding reference sample (L3/L4 all cell 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:PVD-OLL-neurons_L3-L4-larva_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in dpy-21(e428) comparing to in N2 during L3 stage.	DESeq v1.6.3. Fold change > 1.5.	WBPaper00050370:dpy-21(e428)_L3_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in pry-1(mu38) animals comparing to in N2 at L1 larva stage.	DESeq, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00055626:pry-1(mu38)_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 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
Starvation 48 hours at L1 arrest	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in starved N2 animals (48 hours at L1 arrest)	Fold change > 2.	WBPaper00064005:starvation_upregulated_N2_mRNA
	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:coelomocytes_L1-larva_expressed
	Genes found to be regulated by low-copy overexpression of sir-2.1 with p < 0.014.	N.A.	WBPaper00026929:sir-2.1_overexpression_regulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in emb-4(hc60) comparing to in N2.	DESeq2	WBPaper00052884:emb-4(hc60)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in sma-4(rax3) comparing to in N2 at 1-day post-L4 adult hermaphrodite	HTseq-count was used to count reads mapped to each gene and counting data was imported to EdgeR for statistical analysis. Statistical significance was defined by adjusted P value (false discovery rate, FDR) of <0.05.	WBPaper00053184:sma-4(rax3)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed differential expression between 24 and 26 hours post hatching L2d and dauer committed larvae of daf-9(dh, triggered by the dafachronic acid (DA) growth hormone6). Cluster 2 genes' expression gradually increased into dauer.	Benjamini Hochberg corrected q-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00053388:dauer_regulated_Cluster2
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in jmjd-3.1p::jmjd-3.1 comparing to in N2.	DESeq2 Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00049545:jmjd-3.1(+)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in rgef-1p::jmjd-1.2 comparing to in N2.	DESeq2 Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00049545:rgef-1p-jmjd-1.2(+)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in sur-5p::jmjd-1.2 comparing to in N2.	DESeq2 Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00049545:sur-5p-jmjd-1.2(+)_upregulated

10 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2009481
• 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: Expr1030139
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr11253
• Pattern: atf-6 is strongly expressed in the intestine, as well as neurons and muscles.

• Primary Identifier: Expr7566
• Remark: Clone: pUL#JRH/AC10
• Pattern: General low level expression observed in all tissues from late embryo onward. Some tissues show slightly higher expression: gland cell (all stages post-embryonically), vulva (L3 onward), rectum (L2 onward).

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram64
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.1076.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F45E6.2:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1151258
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram396
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.1409.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F45E6.2:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram276
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.130.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F45E6.2:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2027718
• 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: Expr1022678
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

20 GO Annotation

8 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000222
• Start: 12480948
• End: 12484904
• Strand: 1

20 Ontology Annotations

2 Regulates Expr Cluster

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Transcripts upregulated in atf-6(ok551)Mutants on the first day of adulthood comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2, FDR < 0.01.	WBPaper00060224:atf-6(ok551)_upregulated
	Transcripts downregulated in atf-6(ok551)Mutants on the first day of adulthood comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2, FDR < 0.01.	WBPaper00060224:atf-6(ok551)_downregulated

1 Sequence

• Length: 3957

1 Sequence Ontology Term