WormMine: Gene WBGene00004962

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00004962
• Gene Name: spe-8
• Sequence Name: F53G12.6
• Brief Description: spe-8 is predicted to encode a non-receptor tyrosine kinase with a SH2 domain; spe-8 is required for hermaphrodite spermatogenesis or sperm activation but not for male-derived sperm activation (sperm activation is the morphogenesis of a round non-motile spermatid to an amoeboid crawling sperm); however, mutant hermaphrodite spe-8 spermatids can transactivate and form functional sperm during mating with males; genetic and phenotypic evidence suggests that spe-8 acts in a common pathway with spe-12, spe-19, spe-27 and spe-29.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Predicted to enable non-membrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity and signaling receptor binding activity. Involved in spermatid development. Located in plasma membrane. Expressed in sperm and spermatocyte.
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: I :-19.2006 ±0.152057
• Length (nt): 2809

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00004962

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:F53G12.6.1	F53G12.6.1	1586	I: 118093-120901

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:F53G12.6	F53G12.6	1539	I: 118109-118208

5 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00048171
• WBRNAi00003757
• WBRNAi00070648
• WBRNAi00092942
• WBRNAi00070649

58 Allele

• gk963902
• gk963701
• WBVar02028032
• WBVar01639861
• WBVar00146949
• WBVar00146950
• WBVar00146948
• WBVar00146951
• WBVar00146952
• gk451301
• gk639009
• gk810559
• gk793961
• gk938756
• gk495066
• gk582112
• gk375016
• gk718223
• WBVar00532092
• gk627274
• gk627275
• gk430406
• gk423982
• gk800043
• gk463850
• WBVar00532096
• gk796784
• gk717223
• h10804
• gk655153

1 Chromosome

• WormBase ID: I
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Length (nt): 15072434

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00004962
• Start: 118093
• End: 120901
• 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_chrI_120902..127284
• Length (nt): 6383
• Chromosome Location: I: 120902-127284
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans

121 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	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
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in day 1 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva fem-3(q20) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-1-adult_vs_L4_upregulated_fem-3(q20)
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in day 3 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva glp-1(e2141) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-3-adult_vs_L4_downregulated_glp-1(e2141)
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in day 3 adult hermaphrodite comparing to in L4 larva fem-3(q20) animals.	Fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05	WBPaper00064088:Day-3-adult_vs_L4_upregulated_fem-3(q20)
	Transcripts expressed in vulva.	FPKM >= 1.	WBPaper00064122:vulva_transcriptome
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression after 24 hours of induction of human beta Amyloid at young adult stage	A 2-fold change in expression level and a false discovery rate analog of p < 0.05.	WBPaper00064130:Beta-Amyloid_24h_upregulated_mRNA
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in hsp-6(mg585) comparing to in N2 at L4 larva stage.	EdgeR, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.001.	WBPaper00056290:hsp-6(mg585)_downregulated
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
	mRNAs that showed increased expression in P-granule RNAi animales (simultaneously targeting pgl-1, pgl-3, glh-1 and glh-4) comparing to in control RNAi animals. Set 1 transcripts were defined as P-value < 0.05 and fold change > 2.	DESeq was used. Fold change between the average of the four control replicates and the average of the four test replicates was used to calculate the significance using a negative binomial distribution. An adjusted P-value was calculated using the Benjamini-Hochberg method for multiple testing correction.	WBPaper00046805:P-granule-RNAi_upregulated_Set1
	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
	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 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 Day 5 (5-days post-L4) vs. Day 0 (L4 larva) of adulthood N2 animals.	Differential expression for both small RNA- and mRNA-seq data was tested using DESeq2; P-values were adjusted for multiple testing by Benjamini-Hochberg method.	WBPaper00053318:Aging_downregulated_mRNA_N2
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in mir-71(n4115) comparing to in N2 at 4-days post L4 adult hermaphrodite.	Differential expression for both small RNA- and mRNA-seq data was tested using DESeq2; P-values were adjusted for multiple testing by Benjamini-Hochberg method.	WBPaper00053318:mir-71(n4115)_downregulated_mRNA
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in dissected female germline comparing to in dissected male germline.	Log2 Fold change > 2 or <-1, p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00053599:female_vs_male_downregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in 10-days post L4 adult hermaphrodite npr-8(ok1439) animals grown at 25C, comparing to in N2 animals.	CuffDiff, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065096:npr-8(ok1439)_upregulated_Day10_25C
Temprature shift to 28C for 24 hours.	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after animals were exposed to 28C temperature for 24 hours.	Differentially expressed genes wereidentified using DESeq (v.1.18.0) by normalizing readsbased on the negative binomial distribution method andcomparing each HS timepoint to the 0-h control.	WBPaper00061341:28C_24h_downregulated
	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 mep-1(ne4629[MEP-1-GFP-Degron]) 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:mep-1(ne4629)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in prg-1(tm872) 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:prg-1(tm872)_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in ubc-9(ne4833[ubc-9(G56R)] 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:ubc-9(ne4833)_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 mut-16(pk710), comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2 v. 1.22.2, adjusted p-value <= 0.05.	WBPaper00059605:mut-16(pk710)_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 daf-2(e1370) comparing to in N2.	Student's t-test, fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05.	WBPaper00055386:daf-2(e1370)_upregulated
Bacteria: B.thuringiensis	Transcripts in elt-2(RNAi) animals that were significantly differentially expressed at least for one time point and one pathogenic strain Bt247 and Bt679 compared to the non pathogenic strain Bt407.	Cuffdiff	WBPaper00060358:B.thuringiensis_pathogen_regulated_elt-2(RNAi)
Bacteria: B.thuringiensis	Transcripts in N2 animals that were significantly differentially expressed at least for one time point and one pathogenic strain Bt247 and Bt679 compared to the non pathogenic strain Bt407.	Cuffdiff	WBPaper00060358:B.thuringiensis_pathogen_regulated_N2
	Transcripts that showed altered expression from P0 to F2 generation animals after N2 parental generation were treated with antimycin, but not in damt-1(gk961032) P0 to F2 animals after the parenal generaton were treated with antimycin.	N.A.	WBPaper00055862:antimycin_damt-1(gk961032)_regulated
	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 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

6 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2034285
• 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: Expr1151986
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr11880
• Remark: Temporal description
• Pattern: Using the Mos-SCI technique, two SPE-8::GFP translational fusions were integrated into the ttTi5605 Mos1 transposon insertion on Chromosome II. One fusion had GFP on the N-terminus, and the other had GFP on the C-terminus. Both showed green fluorescence in the male germline.
• Subcellular Localization: SPE-8 localizes to the cell membrane during spermatogenesis. All cellular stages of spermatogenesis showed green fluorescence associated with the cell membrane. Unfortunately, developing sperm cells have autofluorescent internal structures. In comparison, control (non-reporter) developing sperm do not have green fluorescence associated with the cell membrane. The primary spermatocytes expressing the reporter appear much more fluorescent even interior to the cell membrane than N2 controls, suggesting that SPE-8 may be accumulating in the cytosol and translocating to the membrane at this stage. By the secondary spermatocyte stage, the cytosol appears no more fluorescent than controls, but the plasma membrane is strongly fluorescent as the reporter has taken up residence there. At the budding spermatid stage a strong GFP signal comes from the residual body, where non-essential cellular components are disposed. It is unclear if native SPE-8 enters the residual body, and an alternative possibility is that some of the fusion has degraded and segregated to the residual body. Finally, the membrane localization of GFP is most pronounced at the spermatid stage, when the cells await the activation signal. In naturally activated spermatozoa from both males and hermaphrodites, the membrane localization found in spermatids disperses into the cytoplasm.

• Primary Identifier: Expr11879
• Pattern: F53G12.6 had a fem-3/fem-1 ratio >5, indicating sperm-specific expression. The sperm-specific expression of F53G12.6 was confirmed by successful amplification of aPCR product specific from this gene in a fem-3 cDNA library but not in a fem-1 cDNAlibrary.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2016050
• 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: Expr1026654
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

21 GO Annotation

1 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00004962
• Start: 118093
• End: 120901
• Strand: 1

21 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 2809

1 Sequence Ontology Term