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Comparative Study
. 1995 Sep;6(9):1159-71.
doi: 10.1091/mbc.6.9.1159.

The C. elegans sex-determining gene fem-2 encodes a putative protein phosphatase

D Pilgrim  1 , A McGregor, P Jäckle, T Johnson, D Hansen
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Comparative Study

The C. elegans sex-determining gene fem-2 encodes a putative protein phosphatase

D Pilgrim et al. Mol Biol Cell. 1995 Sep.
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Abstract

The genetic and molecular analysis of genes involved in the regulation of sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans suggests that the gene fem-2 plays an important role in regulating a pathway transducing a non-cell-autonomous signal to a nuclear transcription factor. The wild-type fem-2 gene was cloned by identifying sequences from the C. elegans physical map that could restore normal Fem-2 function to homozygous mutant fem-2 transgenic animals. cDNA sequences mapping to the minimal rescuing region correspond to an open reading frame with a sequence similar to protein phosphatase 2C enzymes from systems as diverse as yeast, humans, and plants, but the alignments suggest that FEM-2 falls into a separate class of proteins than the canonical homologues. Several fem-2 mutant alleles were sequenced, and the mutations are predicted to cause protein changes consistent with their observed phenotypes, such as missense mutations in conditional alleles, and a nonsense mutation in a predicted null allele. This is the first evidence implicating phosphorylation and/or dephosphorylation as a control mechanism in C. elegans sex determination.

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