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RNAi Experiment: Cenix:22-g4

Genes Inhibited

Gene Inhibited

Description of "C10H11.9"

let-502 encodes Rho-binding Ser/Thr kinase orthologous to human myotonic dystrophy kinase (DM-kinase), and is required for early embryonic cleavages, embryonic elongation, migration of hypodermal P cells to a ventral position, normal spermathecal contraction, and fertility; LET-502 is required for hypodermal cells to properly change their shape, and is expressed in those cells, during embryonic elongation; let-502 mutations are suppressed by mel-11 mutations, and the pattern of LET-502 expression in the embryonic epidermis and the spermatheca is opposite to that of MEL-11, indicating that LET-502 and MEL-11 have opposing functions (presumably tissue contraction and relaxation); MEL-11 requires LET-502 (along with the nonmuscle myosin NMY-1) for proper localization.

KOG Annotation

Rho-associated, coiled-coil containing protein kinase

Evidence for Inhibition

ePCR	Status: Unique_ePCR (I:4742414..4742971) Transcript overlap: 510 nt
Sliding Window	Raw score: 468 Relative score: 1 (This gene has the best score for this RNAi reagent) Specificity index: 1 (RNAi reagent is specific for this gene)
Wormbase (BLAST)	RNAi primary