WormMine: Gene WBGene00000481

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00000481
• Gene Name: cha-1
• Sequence Name: ZC416.8
• Brief Description: cha-1 is part of a gene complex, in which it shares a common promoter and first (noncoding) exon with unc-17 (and is thus coexpressed with unc-17), but in which the two genes encode mutationally separable functions; cha-1 encodes a choline acetyltransferase that synthesizes acetylcholine, is expressed in neurons, and is required for viability, normal growth, locomotion, and sensitivity to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables choline O-acetyltransferase activity. Involved in acetylcholine biosynthetic process. Located in several cellular components, including cytosol; excitatory synapse; and neuronal cell body. Expressed in IL2 neuron. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Alzheimer's disease and congenital myasthenic syndrome 6. Is an ortholog of human CHAT (choline O-acetyltransferase).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: IV :-3.11541 ±0.003705
• Length (nt): 10767

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00000481

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:ZC416.8b.1	ZC416.8b.1	2073	IV: 3613931-3624697

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:ZC416.8b	ZC416.8b	1884	IV: 3614054-3614410

3 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00001082
• WBRNAi00027619
• WBRNAi00102775

205 Allele

• gk963722
• WBVar00187613
• WBVar00187612
• WBVar00187611
• WBVar00187610
• WBVar00187616
• WBVar00187615
• WBVar00187614
• WBVar00187609
• WBVar00187608
• WBVar00187607
• gk649735
• gk657947
• gk924884
• gk651109
• gk467148
• gk616726
• gk556267
• gk841335
• gk709477
• gk923757
• gk373276
• gk657948
• gk563039
• gk634338
• gk660992
• gk313272
• gk750614
• gk563040
• gk494667

1 Chromosome

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

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000481
• Start: 3613931
• End: 3624697
• 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_3613073..3613930
• Length (nt): 858
• Chromosome Location: IV: 3613073-3613930
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

142 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
	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
	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
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in day 3 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva daf-16(mu86);glp-1(e2141) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-3-adult_vs_L4_downregulated_daf-16(mu86);glp-1(e2141)
	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
	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 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
	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
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in hpk-1(pk1393) comparing to in N2 at adult day 2.	DESeq 2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00065581:hpk-1(pk1393)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in wdr-23(mac32) embryos from parents fed with E. coliHB101, comparing to N2 embryos parents fed with E. coli HB101.	DESeq2, Fold Change > 2 or < 0.5.	WBPaper00059566:wdr-23(mac32)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in ilc-17.1(syb5296) comparing to in N2 animals at L4 larva stage.	DESeq2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066594:ilc-17.1(syb5296)_upregulated
	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 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
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased 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_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after animals were treated with 100uM Rapamycin and 50uM Rifampicin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite.	DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05	WBPaper00055354:Rapamycin-Rifampicin_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased 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_downregulated
	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 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
	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
EtBr-exposed(maintained under normal lab light (mostly dark, in incubators) and exposed to EtBr (5ug/mL in agar).) vs UVC-exposed(exposed to 7.5 J/m2 UVC radiation 3 times, 24 h apart (48 h total).) at 3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food.	Genes differentially expressed under EtBr treatment without UVC exposure vs after UVC exposure but without EtBr treatment at the -3h timepoint (3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food).	Transcripts were defined as fold-change >1.2, p < 0.05 based on Rosetta Resolver analysis for all pairwise treatment comparisons. The fold-change refers to the second intensity over the first.	WBPaper00041939:EtBr-exposed_vs_UVC-exposed_51h
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in sma-2(rax5) 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-2(rax5)_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

6 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2009949
• 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: Expr1030283
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr7819
• Remark: Picture: Figs. 3, 4. The three different patterns of subcellular staining of ChAT (smooth with R388; punctate with MAbs1402/1414; mixed with MAbs1401/1415/1432) all appear to be specific: they were found in the same cells in the body and tail, showed decreased staining in specific cha-1 mutants, and showed increased staining in transgenic strains containing extra copies of the cha-1 and unc-17 genes.
• Subcellular Localization: With monoclonal antibodies 1402 and 1414, immunoreactivity was largely present in synaptic regions and was very similar to staining with anti-VAChT antibodies. With the three other monoclonal antibodies (MAbs 1401, 1415, 1432), staining included both punctate regions associated with synapses and smoother areas of staining in somas and processes; this staining appeared to be cytosolic or associated with the plasma membrane and other membranes. In addition, distributed punctate anti-ChAT staining was occasionally detected in nonneuronal tissues (presumably hypodermis and/or muscle) in the head.

• Primary Identifier: Expr11449
• Pattern: Reporter fusions to the unc-17/cha-1 locus and to the choline reuptake transporter cho-1 are expressed in IL2 neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2028189
• 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: Expr1026272
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

19 GO Annotation

6 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00000481
• Start: 3613931
• End: 3624697
• Strand: -1

19 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 10767

1 Sequence Ontology Term