WormMine: Gene WBGene00015171

• WormBase Gene ID: WBGene00015171
• Gene Name: vang-1
• Sequence Name: B0410.2
• Brief Description: vang-1 encodes an ortholog of Drosophila STRABISMUS/VAN GOGH; vang-1 enables Wnt-directed planar cell polarity; VANG-1 is required for the fully asymmetrical division of B.a versus B.p cells, though this requirement is quantitatively weak; vang-1 also negatively regulates adult lifespan via the DAF-2/IGFR insulin signaling pathway, and also plays a role in thermal tolerance and response to oxidative stress.
• Organism: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Automated Description: Enables PDZ domain binding activity. Involved in Wnt signaling pathway, planar cell polarity pathway and digestive tract morphogenesis. Located in apical plasma membrane and basolateral plasma membrane. Expressed in several structures, including P5.ppp; P7.paa; egg-laying apparatus; gonad; and neurons. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in caudal regression syndrome and neural tube defect. Is an ortholog of human VANGL1 (VANGL planar cell polarity protein 1) and VANGL2 (VANGL planar cell polarity protein 2).
• Biotype: SO:0001217
• Genetic Position: X :-12.6816 ±0.003669
• Length (nt): 4824

1 Organism

• Name: Caenorhabditis elegans
• Taxon Id: 6239

1 Synonyms

• Value: WBGene00015171

Genomics

2 Transcripts

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
Transcript:B0410.2a.1	B0410.2a.1	1993	X: 2885858-2890681
Transcript:B0410.2b.1	B0410.2b.1	1590	X: 2885872-2890301

Other

2 CDSs

WormMine ID	Sequence Name	Length (nt)	Chromosome Location
CDS:B0410.2a	B0410.2a	1599	X: 2885872-2886027
CDS:B0410.2b	B0410.2b	1590	X: 2885872-2886027

6 RNAi Result

• WBRNAi00039028
• WBRNAi00039029
• WBRNAi00039030
• WBRNAi00112514
• WBRNAi00009755
• WBRNAi00028127

79 Allele

• gk963725
• WBVar00076584
• WBVar00076585
• WBVar01979955
• WBVar01979954
• WBVar01822285
• WBVar01825021
• gk950846
• gk950847
• h17024
• tm1422
• gk899681
• gk680679
• gk384148
• gk421197
• gk443804
• gk695598
• gk523457
• gk789342
• gk535929
• gk635391
• gk736144
• gk439986
• gk934003
• gk877022
• gk479069
• gk323536
• gk767286
• gk511382
• gk697325

1 Chromosome

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

1 Chromosome Location

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00015171
• Start: 2885858
• End: 2890681
• 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

160 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Genes with expression altered >= 3-fold in dpy-10(e128) mutants.	Data across the wild type series was analyzed using the Significance analysis of Microarrays (SAM) algorithm (to calculate the False Discovery Rate (FDR)).	WBPaper00035873:dpy-10_regulated
	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
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
	Transcripts that showed significantly higher expression in somatic gonad precursor cells (SGP) vs. head mesodermal cells (hmc).	DESeq2, fold change >= 2, FDR <= 0.01.	WBPaper00056826:SGP_biased
	Genes that are significantly up regulated in tdp-1(ok803) poly(A) RNA-seq verses in N2.	DESeq v1.14, with cut-off p-value < 0.05 and FDR < 0.1.	WBPaper00046012:tdp-1(ok803)_upregulated
	Maternal class (M): genes that are called present in at least one of the three PC6 replicates.	A modified Welch F statistic was used for ANOVA. For each gene, regressed error estimates were substituted for observed error estimates. The substitution is justified by the lack of consistency among the most and least variable genes at each time point. Regressed error estimates were abundance-dependent pooled error estimates that represented a median error estimate from a window of genes of similar abundance to the gene of interest. A randomization test was used to compute the probability Pg of the observed F statistic for gene g under the null hypothesis that developmental time had no effect on expression. P-values were not corrected for multiple testing.	[cgc5767]:expression_class_M
	Genes with expression level regulated by genotype (N2 vs CB4856) and age at L3 larva and Late reproduction stage (96 hours at 24 centigrade).	For model 2, authors used 100 permutations to estimate the FDR threshold. Per permutation, genotypes and ages were independently randomly distributed, keeping the among-gene structure intact. Then for each spot (23,232) on the array, model 2 was tested. The obtained P-values were used to estimate a threshold for each of the explanatory factors. Authors also used a genome-wide threshold of -log10 P-value = 2, which resembles an FDR of 0.072 and 0.060 for marker and the interaction age-marker for the developing worms and FDR of 0.050 and 0.065 for marker and age-marker for the aging worms. For the physiological age effect, authors used a log10 P-value = 8 in developing worms (0.012 FDR) and -log10 P-value = 6 (0.032 FDR).	WBPaper00040858:eQTL_age_regulated_developing
	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)
Bacteria diet: Escherichia coli HB101. Fed for 30 generations.	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after fed by bacteria E. coli HB101 for 30 generations comparing to animals fed by E. coli OP50.	DESeq2 fold change > 2, p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00061007:HB101_downregulated
Bacteria diet: Sphingomonas aquatilis Yellow. Fed for 30 generations.	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after fed by bacteria Sphingomonas aquatilis (Yellow) for 30 generations comparing to animals fed by E. coli OP50.	DESeq2 fold change > 2, p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00061007:S.aquatilis_downregulated
Bacteria infection: Bacillus thuringiensis	mRNAs that showed significantly decreased expression after pathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis infections comparing to non pathogenic BT (BT247(1 to 10 mix) vs BT407 12h), according to RNAseq.	Cuffdiff, ajusted p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00046497:B.thuringiensis_0.1mix_downregulated_12h
Bacteria infection: Bacillus thuringiensis	mRNAs that showed significantly decreased expression after pathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis infections comparing to non pathogenic BT (BT247(1 to 2 mix) vs BT407 12h), according to RNAseq.	Cuffdiff, ajusted p-value < 0.01.	WBPaper00046497:B.thuringiensis_0.5mix_downregulated_12h
	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 animals exposed to 400uM tamoxifen from L1 to L4 larva stage.	DEseq2, fold change > 2	WBPaper00064505:tamoxifen_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in alg-1(gk214), comparing to in N2.	DESeq2, Fold change > 1.5.	WBPaper00051404:alg-1(gk214)_upregulated
	Genes down regulated by mir-243(n4759).	RNAs that changed at least 2-fold with a probability of p > 0.05 in three biological replicates were considered differentially regulated between wild-type and mir-243.	WBPaper00036130:mir-243_down_regulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in animal with pgph-2 overepxreesion [pgph-2p-pgph-2; myo-2p-mcherry] in glucose excess condition.	Genes with anadjusted P-value <= 0.05 found by DESeq2 were assigned as differentially expressed.	WBPaper00065926:pgph-2(overepxreesion)_upregulated_glucose
25C vs. 20C	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in 1-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite N2 grown at 25C, comparing to in N2 animals grown at 20C.	CuffDiff, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065096:25C_vs_20C_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly increased expression in 10-days post L4 adult hermaphrodite N2 grown at 20C, comparing to in 1-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite N2 animals grown at 20C.	CuffDiff, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065096:Day10_vs_Day1_upregulated
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in 10-days post L4 adult hermaphrodite npr-8(ok1439) animals grown at 20C, comparing to in N2 animals.	CuffDiff, fold change > 2.	WBPaper00065096:npr-8(ok1439)_downregulated_Day10_20C
	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 decreased expression in tetraploid N2 comparing to diploid N2 animals at L4 larva stage.	DESeq2 R package (1.20.0), fold change > 2, and FDR < 0.05.	WBPaper00066110:tetraploid_vs_diploid_downregulated
	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:all-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: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:GABAergic-motor-neurons_L2-larva_expressed
	Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in hpl-2(tm1489) comparing to in N2 animals.	DESeq2, adjusted p-value < 0.05, log2 fold change > 2 or < -2.	WBPaper00054493:hpl-2(tm1489)_downregulated
	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

12 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr9672
• Pattern: In L4 larvae, vang-1 promoter activity was detected in many head and ventral cord neurons, some bilaterally located mid-body neurons including the HSNs, as well as non-neuronal tissue such as somatic gonad cells, uterine cells, vulval muscle and vulval epithelial cells. Co-expression with the VC1-6 specific reporter Plin-11::RFP revealed that the subset of ventral cord neurons expressing vang-1 includes all six VC neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr2036095
• 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: Expr8882
• Remark: Picture: Fig 3.
• Subcellular Localization: At the onset of morphogenesis, the expression of VANG-1 is detectable at the apical and basolateral domains of the intestinal epithelium. During more advanced morphogenesis, VANG-1 seems gradually to disappear from the apical membrane domain and becomes restricted to the basolateral domain. In later morphogenesis, VANG-1 predominantly localizes to the apex of intestinal cells and the staining pattern emerges in a structure, reminiscent to the CeAJ. Prior to hatching, most VANG-1 protein seems to localize at the CeAJ in the intestin. Double-labeling with anti-VANG-1 and anti-AJM-1 antibodies: Both proteins show a clear colocalization at the CeAJ in the intestine.

• Primary Identifier: Expr8334
• Remark: Picture: Figure 3E.
• Pattern: vang-1::YFP reporter is expressed in the VPC progeny. Bright vang-1::YFP-expressing cell was also observed in ventral cord neuron.

• Primary Identifier: Expr11685
• Pattern: vang-1 is enriched in the gonad.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1036495
• Pattern: Tiling arrays expression graphs

• Primary Identifier: Expr13290
• Pattern: vang-1 is expressed in VNC neurons. VANG-1 (n = 9) was observed to localize to cell membranes and is enriched at contracting cell contacts. In addition, VANG-1 is localized at rosette foci. These localization dynamics resemble that of endogenous myosin II (NMY-2) (Dickinson et al., 2013), which is also found on contracting cell contacts and rosette foci. VANG-1 exhibited approximately 4-fold enrichment at contracting edges versus non-contracting edges and approximately 7-fold enrichment at the rosette center relative to the planar contacts between cells engaged in the rosette.

• Primary Identifier: Expr14630
• Pattern: vang-1 transcripts can be detected in both the QL and QR neuroblasts at the onset of larval development. During the initial polarization and migration of the Q neuroblasts that precedes their response to Wnt ligands [35, 36], there is a clear increase in vang-1 expression in both neuroblasts to an average of 4 ± 1.5 transcripts. After division, there is a significant decrease in vang-1 expression in QL.p (1.5 ± 1 transcripts) and QR.p (1.5 ± 1 transcripts), but this expression remains relatively constant during QR.p and QR.pa migration.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1143191
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015

• Primary Identifier: Expr2017959
• 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: Expr15188
• Subcellular Localization: Punctate GFP::VANG-1 or mCherry::VANG-1 signals were found in PVD soma and infrequently in dendrites. We found that some GFP::VANG-1 puncta in peripheral PVD dendrites showed colocalization with mCherry-fused COR-1/Coronin, an F-actin-binding protein, although we were not able to identify VANG-1 signals at the tips of growing 3 dendrites with confidence.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1018463
• Pattern: Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012

14 GO Annotation

9 Homologues

1 Locations

• Feature . Primary Identifier: WBGene00015171
• Start: 2885858
• End: 2890681
• Strand: 1

14 Ontology Annotations

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

• Length: 4824

1 Sequence Ontology Term