Disease relevance of tnc-2

• RNA interference of tropomyosin or troponin C caused sterility by inhibiting ovarian contraction that is required for expelling mature oocytes into the spermatheca where fertilization takes place, thus causing accumulation of endomitotic oocytes in the ovary [1].

High impact information on tnc-2

• The polypeptide predicted from the sequence of this gene displays structural features of both calmodulin and troponin C [2].
• In gfp and lacZ reporter gene assays the CE1(bs258) element appeared to behave as an enhancer element for the expression of C46H11.6 but no effect on the expression of the opposite direction gene, pat-10 which encodes the body-wall muscle troponin C. The CE1(bs258) RNA transcript was detected by RT-PCR even when CE1(bs258) was located in an intron [3].
• We present evidence that the mutation sites of lev-11 gene was in the tropomyosin gene, tmy-1 and that of pat-10 was in the troponin C gene, tnc-1, of the worm, respectively [4].
• Mutant animals of the tropomyosin and troponin C genes of Caenorhabditis elegans show Pat (paralyzed, arrested elongation at twofold) phenotypes together with abnormal muscle filament assembly [4].
• Mutation site of pat-10(st575) was Asp64 to Asn and Trp153 to termination in the troponin C. The first mutation site was in the second calcium binding site and the second mutation raised the deletion of H helix in the troponin C. Both might affect the calcium binding or the retaining of the conformation for its function [4].

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