mec-14

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable oxidoreductase activity. Involved in positive regulation of multicellular organismal process and response to mechanical stimulus.

mec-1

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable serine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity. Involved in detection of mechanical stimulus involved in sensory perception of touch; extracellular structure organization; and mechanosensory behavior. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Expressed in PVT; cholinergic neurons; intestinal muscle; and touch receptor neurons.

mec-17

Caenorhabditis elegans

Enables tubulin N-acetyltransferase activity. Involved in mechanoreceptor differentiation and thigmotaxis. Predicted to be located in microtubule. Expressed in touch receptor neurons. Used to study neurodegenerative disease. Is an ortholog of human ATAT1 (alpha tubulin acetyltransferase 1).

mec-5

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to be an extracellular matrix structural constituent. Involved in positive regulation of multicellular organismal process and response to mechanical stimulus. Located in extracellular matrix. Expressed in head; hypodermis; muscle cell; tail; and touch receptor neurons.

mec-15

Caenorhabditis elegans

Involved in several processes, including positive regulation of GABAergic synaptic transmission; positive regulation of multicellular organismal process; and response to mechanical stimulus. Located in perikaryon. Expressed in neurons and spermatheca. Is an ortholog of human FBXW9 (F-box and WD repeat domain containing 9).

mec-18

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable CoA-ligase activity. Involved in detection of mechanical stimulus involved in sensory perception of touch and mechanosensory behavior. Located in neuron projection and neuronal cell body. Expressed in PLML; PLMR; and touch receptor neurons.

pag-1

Caenorhabditis elegans

mec-9

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable calcium ion binding activity and serine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity. Involved in positive regulation of multicellular organismal process and response to mechanical stimulus. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Expressed in PVDL; PVDR; head neurons; touch receptor neurons; and ventral cord neurons.

mec-12

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable GTP binding activity. Predicted to be a structural constituent of cytoskeleton. Involved in several processes, including positive regulation of multicellular organismal process; response to mechanical stimulus; and thigmotaxis. Located in axon; microtubule; and neuronal cell body. Expressed in nerve ring; neurons; and in male. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including Down syndrome; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type 22; and lissencephaly 3. Is an ortholog of human TUBA3C (tubulin alpha 3c) and TUBA3D (tubulin alpha 3d).

mec-3

Caenorhabditis elegans

Enables several functions, including DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific; RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding activity; and transcription coactivator activity. Involved in several processes, including mechanosensory behavior; neuron projection organization; and positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Part of RNA polymerase II transcription regulator complex. Expressed in VA neuron; touch receptor neurons; ventral nerve cord; and vulva. Is an ortholog of human LHX1 (LIM homeobox 1) and LHX5 (LIM homeobox 5).