WormMine: Gene WBGene00006756

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00006756
• Gene Name: unc-17
• Sequence Name: ZC416.8
• Brief Description: unc-17 encodes a synaptic vesicle acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) highly conserved amongst metazoans including Drosophila and humans (OMIM:600336); UNC-17 is essential for embryonic development, and is required in cholinergic neurons for loading acetylcholine into synaptic vesicles to which UNC-17 is localized; UNC-17 expression may be regulated indirectly by the UNC-4/UNC-37 transcriptional repressor complex, as UNC-17 expression is greatly reduced in unc-4 and unc-37 mutant backgrounds.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables acetylcholine transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in several processes, including cholinergic synaptic transmission; nematode larval development; and regulation of nematode pharyngeal pumping. Located in neuron projection; organelle membrane; and synapse. Expressed in neurons; pm2; somatic nervous system; and in male. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Alzheimer's disease; Huntington's disease; and congenital myasthenic syndrome 21. Is an ortholog of human SLC18A3 (solute carrier family 18 member A3).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: IV :-3.10543 ±0.009454
• Length (nt): 6441

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00006756

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:ZC416.8a.1	ZC416.8a.1	1922	IV: 3618259-3624699

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:ZC416.8a	ZC416.8a	1599	IV: 3618500-3619329

21 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00117274
• WBRNAi00089788
• WBRNAi00001899
• WBRNAi00058909
• WBRNAi00117273
• WBRNAi00021695
• WBRNAi00114354
• WBRNAi00059975
• WBRNAi00059976
• WBRNAi00059977
• WBRNAi00059978
• WBRNAi00059979
• WBRNAi00059980
• WBRNAi00059981
• WBRNAi00059974
• WBRNAi00059982
• WBRNAi00089995
• WBRNAi00090154
• WBRNAi00090313
• WBRNAi00114345
• WBRNAi00108393

128 Allele

• gk963722
• WBVar00187613
• WBVar00187612
• WBVar00187611
• WBVar00187616
• WBVar00187615
• WBVar00187614
• gk649735
• gk657947
• gk924884
• gk651109
• gk467148
• gk616726
• gk556267
• gk841335
• gk709477
• gk923757
• gk373276
• gk657948
• gk563039
• gk634338
• gk660992
• gk313272
• gk750614
• gk563040
• gk494667
• gk608618
• gk343002
• gk752626
• gk670383

1 Chromosome

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

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00006756
• Start: 3618259
• End: 3624699
• Strand: -1

4 Data Sets

• WormBaseAcedbConverter
• GO Annotation data set
• C. elegans genomic annotations (GFF3 Gene)
• Panther orthologue and paralogue predictions

0 Downstream Intergenic Region

152 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	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
	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
	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
	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 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 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 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 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
	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 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
	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 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 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_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 decreased expression in pfd-6(gk493446); daf-2(e1370) comparing to in daf-2(e1370).	Limma version 3.24.15. Fold change < 0.67 (p < 0.05).	WBPaper00055827:pfd-6(gk493446)_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 found to be regulated by low-copy overexpression of sir-2.1 with p < 0.014.	N.A.	WBPaper00026929:sir-2.1_overexpression_regulated
	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
24 hours of AgNPs exposure.	Genes downregulated more than 2 fold after 24 hours of AgNPs exposure.	Statistical differences between the control and exposed worms were determined by a parametric t test, and a Pearson correlation test was performed for correlation analysis, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, Chicago, IL).	WBPaper00034661:AgNPs_downregulated
	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

16 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr2035988
• 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: Expr1162349
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr15436
• Pattern: unc-17(3k)

• Primary Identifier: Expr320
• Remark: Neuronal gene expression pattern from collation by Shawn Lockery of neuron-specific promotors posted 20/04/98 (http://chinook.uoregon.edu). Since cell AS is listed under 'body' in the pattern, it presumably means the AS.1-11 ventral cord neurons rather than the AS amphid neurons.[sdm-curator]
• Pattern: head: IL2 URA URB SAA SAB SIA SIB SMB SMD RMD AIY, sev more; phar: M1 M2 M5 I1f I6f, others; body: VA VB VC DA DB AS SDQ HSNf; tail: ALN PLN others [J. Duerr (personal communication to Shawn Lockery)], antibody

• Primary Identifier: Expr12717

• Primary Identifier: Expr14646
• Pattern: unc-17/VACHT is expressed in AIM sex-shared neurons only in the males, but not in hermaphrodites, starting at the L4 stage. CEM male-specific neurons showed unc-17/VACHT expression also starting at the L4 stage.

• Primary Identifier: Expr8936
• Remark: No detailed description on cellular expression pattern in other tissues or life stages. Picture: N.A.
• Pattern: UNC-17 antibody staining in AIA can be observed in 94% of wild-type animals (n=32).

• Primary Identifier: Expr1032830
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr1200278
• Pattern: Data from the TransgeneOme project

• Primary Identifier: Expr1515
• Pattern: Staining was observed in most regions of the nervous system, including nerve ring, dorsal and ventral nerve cord and pharyngeal nervous system.
• Subcellular Localization: Within individual cells, anti-UNC-17 binding was punctate and appeared to be concentrated near synaptic regions.

• Primary Identifier: Expr11823
• Pattern: Expression is detected in MC, M2, M4, M1 and I1.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1818
• Remark: Only celluar expression patterns in the mail tale was reported. No detail on expression pattern in other tissues. --wjc.
• Pattern: PCB, PCC, and SPC neurons expressed an unc-17::gfp construct beginning at mid-L4 and continuing throughout adulthood.

• 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: Expr12072
• Pattern: unc-17::GFP expression was observed along the cholinergic neurons of the transgenic worms.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2017852
• 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: Expr3543
• Subcellular Localization: Synaptic expression, co-localized with SNB-1::RFP.

33 GO Annotation

6 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00006756
• Start: 3618259
• End: 3624699
• Strand: -1

33 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 6441

1 Sequence Ontology Term