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WormBase Gene ID  ? WBGene00007626 Gene Name  rnf-121
Sequence Name  ? C16C10.5 Brief Description  rnf-121 encodes a RING finger E3 ubiquitin ligase; RNF-121 appears to function in the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway downstream of PEK-1; RNF-121 exhibits E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase activity in vitro and in vivo regulates levels of the PAT-3 beta integrin subunit which is an RNF-121 substrate; RNF-121 may thus regulate cell adhesion through control of PAT-3 levels, consistent with gonad and germline defects seen upon RNF-121 overexpression; RNF-121 is required for distal tip cell migration (DTC) and genetic interactions suggest that RNF-121 functions at least partially in parallel with the coiled-coil domain protein CCDC-55 and the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF-5 to regulate DTC migration; RNF-121 is expressed in the hypodermis, including the seam cells, the vulva, uterus, spermatheca, sheath cells, and distal tip cells; RNF-121 localizes to membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum, the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi.
Organism  Caenorhabditis elegans Automated Description  Enables ubiquitin protein ligase activity. Involved in ERAD pathway; PERK-mediated unfolded protein response; and inductive cell migration. Located in Golgi membrane and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. Expressed in body wall musculature; gonad; hypodermis; and vulva. Is an ortholog of human RNF121 (ring finger protein 121) and RNF175 (ring finger protein 175).
Biotype  SO:0001217 Genetic Position  III :-3.72075 ±0.002855
Length (nt)  ? 2177
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1 Organism

Name Taxon Id
Caenorhabditis elegans 6239

1 Synonyms

Value
WBGene00007626

Genomics

1 Transcripts

WormMine ID Sequence Name Length (nt) Chromosome Location
Transcript:C16C10.5.1 C16C10.5.1 1334   III: 4168777-4170953
 

Other

1 CDSs

WormMine ID Sequence Name Length (nt) Chromosome Location
CDS:C16C10.5 C16C10.5 1008   III: 4169089-4169209

13 RNAi Result

WormBase ID
WBRNAi00094655
WBRNAi00040682
WBRNAi00040683
WBRNAi00010830
WBRNAi00093256
WBRNAi00076134
WBRNAi00005263
WBRNAi00093249
WBRNAi00093250
WBRNAi00093251
WBRNAi00093252
WBRNAi00093253
WBRNAi00002527

27 Allele

Public Name
WBVar01262769
WBVar01656513
otn2932
otn1583
gk836976
gk563459
ok848
WBVar01837430
gk491501
gk351955
gk673890
gk531498
gk885863
gk436172
gk337045
gk172274
gk685107
gk327434
gk764457
gk523960
gk768037
gk172279
gk172276
gk172275
gk172278
gk172277
ok2851

1 Chromosome

WormBase ID Organism Length (nt)
III Caenorhabditis elegans 13783801  

1 Chromosome Location


Feature . Primary Identifier
Start End Strand
WBGene00007626 4168777 4170953 -1

4 Data Sets

Name URL
WormBaseAcedbConverter  
GO Annotation data set  
C. elegans genomic annotations (GFF3 Gene)  
Panther orthologue and paralogue predictions  

1 Downstream Intergenic Region

WormBase ID Name Sequence Name Length (nt) Chromosome Location Organism
intergenic_region_chrIII_4168766..4168776   11 III: 4168766-4168776 Caenorhabditis elegans

81 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment Description Algorithm Primary Identifier
  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 increased expression after animals were treated with 50uM Rifampicin and 250uM Allantoin from day 1 to day 3 adult hermaphradite. DESeq2(v1.14.1), fold change > 2, p-value < 0.05 WBPaper00055354:Rifampicin-Allantoin_upregulated
  Transcripts expressed in hypodermis, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pdpy-7-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging. Cufflinks FPKM value >=1. WBPaper00050990:hypodermis_expressed
  Transcripts expressed in intestine, according to PAT-Seq analysis using Pges-1-GFP-3XFLAG mRNA tagging. Cufflinks FPKM value >=1. WBPaper00050990:intestine_expressed
Bacteria: Pseudomonas donghuensis HYS Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression after 24 hours of infection by Pseudomonas donghuensis HYS, comparing to control animals exposed to OP50. DESeq2, fold change > 2, FDR < 0.05. WBPaper00068216:HYS_vs_OP50_downregulated
  Transcripts detected in germline isolated from day-1 adult hermaphrodite animals. All three experiments have CPM >= 1. WBPaper00067147:germline_expressed
  Transcripts detected in body muscle nuclei according to a nuclear FACS-based strategy. Cufflinks WBPaper00065120:body-muscle-transcriptome
  Transcripts that were regulated by both set-6(ok2195) and baz-2(tm0235) at 2-day post L4 adult hermaphrodite stage. N.A. WBPaper00059356:set-6(ok2195)_baz-2(tm0235)_regulated
  Genes significantly enriched (> 2x, FDR < 5%) in a particular cell-type versus a reference sample of all cells at the same stage. 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:hypodermis_larva_enriched
  Genes that were not enriched in either spermatogenic fem-3(q96gf) nor oogenic fog-2(q71) gonads, according to RNAseq analysis. To identify differentially expressed transcripts, authors used R/Bioconductor package DESeq. WBPaper00045521:Gender_Neutral
  Transcripts that showed decreased expression in hlh-11(ko1) knockout strain comparing to in wild type background. DESeq2, FDR < 0.05 WBPaper00060683:hlh-11(ko1)_downregulated
  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
Bacteria infection: Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. Exposure for 16 hours. Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in hpx-2(dg047) after animals were exposed to E. faecalis OG1RF for 16 hours comparing to exposure to E. Coli OP50. Cuffcompare and Cuffdiff WBPaper00056090:E.faecalis_downregulated_hpx-2(dg047)
  TGF- Dauer pathway adult transcriptional targets. Results obtained by comparing the microarray results of the dauer-constitutive mutants daf-7(e1372), daf-7(m62), and daf-1(m40) with dauer-defective mutants daf-3(mgDf90), daf-5(e1386), and daf-7(e1372);daf-3(mgDf90) double mutants at the permissive temperature, 20C, on the first day of adulthood. SAM WBPaper00031040:TGF-beta_adult_downregulated
  Genes expressed in N2. Expressed transcripts were identified on the basis of a Present call in 3 out of 4 N2 experiments as determined by Affymetrix MAS 5.0. WBPaper00025141:N2_Expressed_Genes
EtBr-exposed(maintained under normal lab light (mostly dark, in incubators) and exposed to EtBr (5ug/mL in agar).) vs UVC-exposed(exposed to 7.5 J/m2 UVC radiation 3 times, 24 h apart (48 h total).) at 3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food. Genes differentially expressed under EtBr treatment without UVC exposure vs after UVC exposure but without EtBr treatment at the -3h timepoint (3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food). Transcripts were defined as fold-change >1.2, p < 0.05 based on Rosetta Resolver analysis for all pairwise treatment comparisons. The fold-change refers to the second intensity over the first. WBPaper00041939:EtBr-exposed_vs_UVC-exposed_51h
  Genes that showed significantly altered expression between N2 and npr-1(ur89) strains exposed to either the nematocidal B. thuringiensis B-18247, the pathogenic P. aeruginosa PA14, or the control E. coli OP50 for 12 or 24 hours. Estimation of transcript abundance and significantly differentially expressed genes were identified by Cuffdiff using the quartile normalization method. Transcripts with a significant change between different conditions (adjusted p-value < 0.01 by the false discovery rate, FDR) were treated as signature for each comparison. WBPaper00049498:npr-1(ur89)_regulated_3
  Embryonic class (E): genes that significantly increase in abundance at some point during embryogenesis. 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_E
  Transcripts that showed significantly decreased expression in pals-22(jy3) comparing to in N2 at L4 larva stage. Differential expression analysis was performed in RStudio (v1.1.453) using R (v3.50) and Bioconductor (v3.7) packages. As outlined in the RNAseq123 vignette, data was imported, filtered and normalized using edgeR, and linear modeling and differential expression analysis was performed using limma. An FDR cutoff of <0.01 was used to define differentially expressed genes; no fold-change criteria was used. WBPaper00056034:pals-22(jy3)_downregulated
  Transcripts enriched in germline by comparing dissected germline tissue with dissected intestine tissue, both injected with empty RNAi vector. Genes were determined germline-enriched if the lowest expression value (log2(FPKM+1)) observed in the germline empty vector samples was at least 2-fold higher than the highest expression value observed in the intestine empty vector samples. WBPaper00051039:germline_enriched
Bacteria infection: Xenorhabdus nematophila Caenorhabditis elegans Genes with expression levels changed significantly after treatment of Xenorhabdus nematophila. Differential expression were calculated by empirical eBayes method using eBayes function. P_value <= 0.01 and log2 fold change > 1 were used to call differentially expressed genes in all datasets. WBPaper00041606:CE_X.nematophila_regulated
control(maintained under normal lab light (mostly dark, in incubators).) vs EtBr-exposed(maintained under normal lab light (mostly dark, in incubators) and exposed to EtBr (5ug/mL in agar).) at just prior to the third UVC dose (48h). Genes differentially expressed in control vs under EtBr treatment without UVC exposure, at the -1h timepoint. Transcripts were defined as fold-change >1.2, p < 0.05 based on Rosetta Resolver analysis for all pairwise treatment comparisons. The fold-change refers to the second intensity over the first. WBPaper00041939:control_vs_EtBr-exposed_48h
control(maintained under normal lab light (mostly dark, in incubators).) vs UVC-EtBr-exposed(exposed to 7.5 J/m2 UVC radiation 3 times, 24 h apart (48 h total) and exposed to EtBr (5ug/mL in agar).) at just prior to the third UVC dose (48h). Genes differentially expressed in control vs after UVC exposure and EtBr treatment at the -1h timepoint (just prior to the third UVC dose (48h)). Transcripts were defined as fold-change >1.2, p < 0.05 based on Rosetta Resolver analysis for all pairwise treatment comparisons. The fold-change refers to the second intensity over the first. WBPaper00041939:control_vs_UVC-EtBr-exposed_48h
  Significantly downregulated genes from cyc-1(RNAi) microarrays using SAM algorithm with an FDR < 0.1 from adult-only chips. SAM algorithm with an FDR < 0.1. WBPaper00033065:cyc-1(RNAi)_downregulated
UVC-EtBr-exposed(exposed to 7.5 J/m2 UVC radiation 3 times, 24 h apart (48 h total) and exposed to EtBr (5ug/mL in agar).) vs UVC-exposed(exposed to 7.5 J/m2 UVC radiation 3 times, 24 h apart (48 h total).) at 3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food. Genes differentially expressed under EtBr treatment and UVC exposure vs under UVC exposure but without EtBr treatment at the -3h timepoint (3 h after the third UVC dose (51h), which is also 3 h after being placed on food). Transcripts were defined as fold-change >1.2, p < 0.05 based on Rosetta Resolver analysis for all pairwise treatment comparisons. The fold-change refers to the second intensity over the first. WBPaper00041939:UVC-EtBr-exposed_vs_UVC-exposed_51h
  Proteins that showed differential expression in (B) let-7(mg279);[let-7 sponge] when comparing to (A) [let-7 sponge], and in (C) gld-1(op236); let-7(mg279);[let-7 sponge] when comparing to (A) [let-7 sponge] N.A. WBPaper00044501:gld-1_let-7_regulated
  Genes identified as down-regulated at a 5% false discovery rate through RNAseq experiments with three tatn-1(qd182) and three N2 RNA samples. ANOVA with FDR <= 0.05. WBPaper00044656:tatn-1(qd182)_downregulated
  Maternal-embryonic class (ME): genes that are in the intersection of the maternal and embryonic classes. 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_ME

7 Expression Patterns

Remark Reporter Gene Primary Identifier Pattern Subcellular Localization
    Expr1033292 Tiling arrays expression graphs  
Picture: Fig 1.   Expr9016 In addition to its localization in the sarcoplasmic reticulum and the ER of the hypodermis, RNF-121 expressed in the ER membrane of the seam cells (specialized epithelial cells), vulva, uterus, spermatheca, sheath cells and distal tip cells (DTCs), based on the typical pattern of intracellular reticular network in these tissues. The RNF-121::GFP transgene is expressed in intracellular reticular structures as well as in the perinuclear region, suggesting its localization to the ER. ER membrane localization was confirmed by co-localization with the mRFP::SP12 ER reporter (12-kDa signal peptidase subunit). SP12 has been shown to be enriched in the rough ER membrane, however in C. elegans neurons it is expressed throughout the ER membrane, both in the cell body and neurites. Expression of RNF-121::GFP is also detected in scattered dots that are co-localized with the Golgi reporter alpha-mannosidase II.
    Expr1020021 Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/levin2012  
    Expr2015382 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).  
    Expr2043541 Translational efficiency and RNA abundance/Ribosome occupancy across early embryonic stages (1-cell to 8-cell). For each developmental stage, translational efficiency was calculated as the ratio between ribosome footprint reads and mRNA abundance after normalization. A detailed description of the experimental methods and analysis can be found in: Shukla Y, Ghatpande V, Hu CF, Dickinson DJ, Cenik C. Landscape and regulation of mRNA translation in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell Rep. 2025 June 24;44(6):115778. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115778. PMID: 40450690  
    Expr1144727 Developmental gene expression time-course. Raw data can be downloaded from ftp://caltech.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/datasets-published/hashimshony2015  
    Expr2033616 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).  

22 GO Annotation

Annotation Extension Qualifier
  involved_in
has_input(WB:WBGene00003930) enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in

7 Homologues

Type
orthologue
orthologue
least diverged orthologue
least diverged orthologue
least diverged orthologue
least diverged orthologue
least diverged orthologue

1 Locations


Feature . Primary Identifier
Start End Strand
WBGene00007626 4168777 4170953 -1

22 Ontology Annotations

Annotation Extension Qualifier
  involved_in
has_input(WB:WBGene00003930) enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  enables
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  involved_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in
  located_in

0 Regulates Expr Cluster

1 Sequence

Length
2177

1 Sequence Ontology Term

Identifier Name Description
gene  

1 Strains

WormBase ID
WBStrain00031664

1 Upstream Intergenic Region

WormBase ID Name Sequence Name Length (nt) Chromosome Location Organism
intergenic_region_chrIII_4170954..4171333   380 III: 4170954-4171333 Caenorhabditis elegans