WormMine: Gene WBGene00000438

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00000438
• Gene Name: ceh-14
• Sequence Name: F46C8.5
• Brief Description: ceh-14 encodes a LIM homeodomain protein orthologous to Drosophila Lim3 and the vertebrate Lhx3 and Lhx4 proteins; ceh-14 is required for specification of the AFD thermosensory neurons and for normal thermotactic behavior; a ceh-14::GFP reporter fusion is expressed in head and tail neurons, including the AFD thermosensory neurons, during late embryonic, larval, and adult stages. Animals triply mutant for the LIM homeobox genes ceh-14, lin-11, and ttx-3 which are required for function of the AFD, AIZ, and AIY neurons, respectively, exhibit a basic cryophilic thermotaxis response suggesting that, in C. elegans, there is more than one pathway for integration of thermosensory input.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Involved in neuron development; positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II; and thermosensory behavior. Located in nucleus. Expressed in several structures, including hypodermal cell; neurons; somatic nervous system; spermatheca; and tail. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in panhypopituitarism. Is an ortholog of human LHX3 (LIM homeobox 3).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: X :-1.63056 ±0.011991
• Length (nt): 4964

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00000438

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:F46C8.5.1	F46C8.5.1	1903	X: 7527769-7532732

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:F46C8.5	F46C8.5	1056	X: 7528616-7528782

9 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00000726
• WBRNAi00047517
• WBRNAi00015085
• WBRNAi00032362
• WBRNAi00063283
• WBRNAi00063284
• WBRNAi00063286
• WBRNAi00063287
• WBRNAi00084773

96 Allele

• gk964260
• gk963732
• WBVar01927319
• gk963873
• gk963874
• gk964088
• gk964087
• gk964005
• gk964003
• tm12657
• gk376306
• ot900
• otn12660
• WBVar01758779
• WBVar01758778
• WBVar01820282
• WBVar01820283
• otn2345
• otn13583
• ot1185
• WBVar01619561
• tm6202
• WBVar00099081
• WBVar00099082
• tm6757
• WBVar01815992
• otn3690
• WBVar01815991
• ch1
• WBVar01815990

1 Chromosome

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

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000438
• Start: 7527769
• End: 7532732
• 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_7527434..7527768
• Length (nt): 335
• Chromosome Location: X: 7527434-7527768
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

98 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
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
	Neuronally enriched transcripts according to a comparison of neuronal nuclei IP samples to total nuclei using isolation of nuclei from tagged specific cell types (INTACT) technology.	DESEQ2, fold change > 2 and FDR < 0.01.	WBPaper00062103:neuron_enriched
	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
	Coexpression clique No. 203, sre-33-ZK1025.1_8337, on the genome-wide coexpression clique map for the nematode GPL200 platform.	All available microarray datasets for the GPL200 platform (Affymetrix C. elegans Genome Array) were obtained from the GEO repository. This included 2243 individual microarray experiments. These were normalized against each other with the software RMAexpress (Bolstad, 2014). Based on these normalized values, Pearsons correlation coefficients were obtained for each probe-probe pair of the 22,620 probes represented on this array type. The resulting list of correlation coefficients was then ranked to generate the ranked coexpression database with information on each probe represented on the GPL200 platform.	WBPaper00061527:sre-33-ZK1025.1_8337
	Coexpression clique No. 60, 176662_at-Y53F4B.16, on the genome-wide coexpression clique map for the nematode GPL200 platform.	All available microarray datasets for the GPL200 platform (Affymetrix C. elegans Genome Array) were obtained from the GEO repository. This included 2243 individual microarray experiments. These were normalized against each other with the software RMAexpress (Bolstad, 2014). Based on these normalized values, Pearsons correlation coefficients were obtained for each probe-probe pair of the 22,620 probes represented on this array type. The resulting list of correlation coefficients was then ranked to generate the ranked coexpression database with information on each probe represented on the GPL200 platform.	WBPaper00061527:176662_at-Y53F4B.16
	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
	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 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
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 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 altered expression after 24 hour exposure to stavudine (d4T) starting at L1 lava stage.	DESeq	WBPaper00053302:stavudine_24h_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
	Expression Pattern Group C, enriched for genes involved in metabolic processes.	The significance (P 0.0001) of the relative age (time) was used to determine if a gene was differentially expressed between the three age (time) groups. The effect of this factor explaining gene expression differences was used to determine if the expression went up or down during the two age/time periods (t1 - t2 and t2 -t3). Authors used a permutation approach to determine the thresholds for the different mapping strategies. For each of the used models for eQTL mapping, authors used 23,000 permutations. For each permutation, authors randomly picked a spot; each spot could only be picked once. The gene expression and relative lifespan values were than randomly distributed over the RILs (and time points) and used for mapping. In this way, authors obtained a threshold for each of the explaining factors. For the single time points, authors used a FDR of 0.01 to adjust for multiple testing. The genome-wide threshold for this FDR is -log10 P = 3.8 for each of the three time points. For the combined models (t1 to t2 and t2 to t3), authors used a genome-wide threshold of -log10 P = 4, which resembles an FDR of 0.006, 0.001, and 0.006 for marker, age, and the interaction between marker and age, respectively. To determine the threshold for the single gene examples, authors used 1000 permutations as in the genome-wide threshold. The difference is that they use the gene under study in all of the permutations. The P-values for the gene specific thresholds were determined at FDR = 0.05.	WBPaper00036286:Pattern_C
	Transcripts depleted in purified oocyte P bodies comparing to in whole oocytes.	DESeq2, FDR < 0.05, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065975:P-body_vs_oocyte_depleted
	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 hda-1(ne4752[3xFLAG-Degron-HDA-1]) in gonads dissected from 1-day old adult animals.	Salmon was used to map the mRNA-seq reads with the worm database WS268, and its output files were imported to DESeq2 in R. The differentially expressed genes were filtered by fold change more than 2 and adjusted p-value < 0.05. The scatter plots were generated by the plot function in R.	WBPaper00061479:hda-1(ne4752)_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:glr-1(+)-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
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in hda-2(ok1479) comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2 (version 1.28.1), FDR < 0.01, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00062159:hda-2(ok1479)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in npr-15(tm12539) comparing to in N2 at L4 larva stage.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066608:npr-15(tm12539)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in srbc-48(ac23);kyIs262;fer-1(b232ts) comparing to in kyIs262;fer-1(b232ts), 24h after infection with P.aeruginosa.	DESeq2, FDR <0.05, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00059664:srbc-48(ac23)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after animals were treated with 100uM Psora and 250uM Allantoin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Psora-Allantoin_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after animals were treated with 100uM Rapamycin and 250uM Allantoin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Rapamycin-Allantoin_downregulated

20 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2009861
• 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: Expr1030248
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr1144
• Remark: Reporter gene fusion type not specified.
• Pattern: LacZ expressed in neurons, the hypodermis, and the spermatheca. The expression is seen in nuclei of the hypodermal syncytia hyp3-hyp10, but not in the seam cells. The lacZ expressing hypodermal cells are both embryonically derived and postembryonically derived, from the P and V blast cells. At the L1 stage the expression is uniform in the hypodermis, however in later stages, especially L4 to young adult, the expression takes the form of a gradient centered on the vulval region of the hermaphrodites.
• Subcellular Localization: nuclei

• Primary Identifier: Expr7568
• Remark: Clone: pUL#JRH/AH9
• Pattern: Neuronal expression from late embryo to adult: dorsal and ventral nerve cord plus a nerve cell body in the dorsal part of the nerve ring; three pairs of cells (one in the nerve ring, one just posterior to pharynx, one in tail). Expression in spermathecae.

• Primary Identifier: Expr15564

• Primary Identifier: Expr1056
• Remark: Reporter gene fusion type not specified. late embryo(author) = fully-elongated embryo (wjc)
• Pattern: GFP expression in the anterior was observed in the sensory neurons AFDL/R, in the interneurons BDUL/R, and in the asymmetrical interneuron ALA. The expression pattern of the GFP constructs was continuous from the late embryonic through all larval stages and maintained in adults. Both constructs show the same expression pattern. Larval and adult expression of CEH-14 protein in AFDL/R and BDUL/R was confirmed by immunolocalization using the CEH-14-specific antiserum. One additional cell expressing CEH-14 was observed in the head, at a location consistent with that for ALA. The staining was always nuclear. In the tail region, ceh-14 is expressed in PVT, PVQL/R, DVC, PVNL/R, PVWL/R, PVR, PHCL/R, PHAL/R, and PHBL/R.
• Subcellular Localization: Always expressed in nuclei.

• Primary Identifier: Expr10986
• Pattern: ceh-14 expression starts around the 280 min stage mainly in the anterior part of the embryo. In later stages (comma stage), the expression is seen in more cells in the head, but also in some cells in the tail. Judged by position and shape, most of them are neuronal precursors, although we have not precisely identified them. From larval to adult stages, neuronal expression is observed in the ALA interneuron and a pair of sensory neurons, AFDL/R, in the head, and in the BDUL/R interneurons in the anterior body (see also Cassata et al., 2000a). In the tail, we see expression in the sensory- and interneurons PHAL/R, PHBL/R, PHCL/R, DVC, PVCL/R, PVNL/R, PVQL/R, PVT, PVWL/R and PVR. The neuronal expression in the head and tail is confirmed by an anti-CEH-14 rabbit antiserum. We also note expression in the six touch neurons ALML/R, AVM, PVM and PLML/R, although it is seen only in strains with integrated reporter constructs. In addition to the neuronal expression, ceh-14 expression is also seen in the hypodermis and spermatheca as previously described (Kagoshima et al., 2000).

• Primary Identifier: Expr12728

• Primary Identifier: Expr1151356
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr15322

• Primary Identifier: Expr1200165
• Pattern: Data from the TransgeneOme project

• Primary Identifier: Expr2028101
• 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: Chronogram100
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.1108.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F46C8.5:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram130
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.1136.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F46C8.5:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram190
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.122.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F46C8.5:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Chronogram1019
• Remark: Original chronogram file: chronogram.2076.xml
• Reporter Gene: [F46C8.5:gfp] transcriptional fusion.

• Primary Identifier: Expr10476
• Pattern: Inferred Expression. EPIC dataset. http://epic.gs.washington.edu/ Large-scale cellular resolution compendium of gene expression dynamics throughout development. This reporter was inferred to be expressing in this cell or one of its embryonic progenitor cells as described below. To generate a compact description of which cells express a particular reporter irrespective of time, the authors defined a metric "peak expression" for each of the 671 terminal ("leaf") cells born during embryogenesis. For each of these cells, the peak expression is the maximal reporter intensity observed in that cell or any of its ancestors; this has the effect of transposing earlier expression forward in time to the terminal set of cells. This metric allows straightforward comparisons of genes' cellular and lineal expression overlap, even when the expression occurs with different timing and despite differences in the precise time point that curation ended in different movies, at the cost of ignoring the temporal dynamics of expression, a topic that requires separate treatment. For simplicity, the authors use the term "expressing cells" to mean the number of leaf cells (of 671) with peak expression greater than background (2000 intensity units) and at least 10% of the maximum expression in that embryo. Quantitative expression data for all cells are located here: ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/murray2012/

• Primary Identifier: Expr1011334
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

• Primary Identifier: Expr11556
• Pattern: Expressed in head neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1170084
• Pattern: Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy was performed, including DIC for morphology. Gene expression patterns were summarized in 4 manners: Average over time, Average over time and at different positions along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis, a voxelized representation over time, and on individual cells overlaid from a reference coordinate dataset (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.06.014). The analysis was done with a pipeline based on the multi-purpose image analysis software Endrov (https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2478), which further is needed to browse the raw recording data. Thumbnail movies were also generated, using maximum Z projection for the 3D fluorescence channel. Raw recordings available in the Endrov OST-file format are available at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-BIAD191?query=S-BIAD191

26 GO Annotation

8 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000438
• Start: 7527769
• End: 7532732
• Strand: -1

26 Ontology Annotations

2 Regulates Expr Cluster

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in ceh-14(ch3) comparing to in N2 at L4 larva stage.	DESeq2(1.36.0), fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066004:ceh-14(ch3)_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in ceh-14(ch3) comparing to in N2 at L4 larva stage.	DESeq2(1.36.0), fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066004:ceh-14(ch3)_upregulated

1 Sequence

• Length: 4964

1 Sequence Ontology Term