casy-1 (CAlSYntenin/Alcadein homolog)

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Description

casy-1 (CAlSYntenin/Alcadein homolog) is an ortholog of human CLSTN1 (calsyntenin 1) and CLSTN2 (calsyntenin 2). Exhibits insulin receptor binding activity. Is involved in cellular protein localization and olfactory learning. Localizes to several cellular components, including the Golgi apparatus; extracellular space; and neuronal cell body membrane. Is expressed in nervous system.

casy-1 encodes a type I transmembrane protein with two extracellular cadherin domains and an LG/LNS domain that is the sole C. elegans calsyntenin/alcadein ortholog.

Genetic studies indicate that in C. elegans casy-1 activity is required, in parallel to the insulin-like signaling pathway, for several types of learning, including salt chemotaxis learning, temperature learning, olfactory adaptation, and integration of two sensory stimuli; large-scale RNAi experiments also suggest that casy-1 plays a role in embryonic development.

casy-1 expression in adult animals is able to rescue salt chemotaxis learning defects, indicating that CASY-1 function in mature animals is sufficient to effect proper chemotactic behavior; in addition, CASY-1 expression in the ASER neuron, but not other neurons, rescues salt chemotaxis learning defects, indicating the CASY-1 can act solely in this chemosensory neuron for normal salt chemotaxis learning.

A casy-1::GFP promoter fusion is expressed throughout the nervous system, including the head amphid sensory neurons, with additional expression seen in the intestine and gonadal sheath cells; a CASY-1::GFP protein fusion localizes to the plasma membrane and intracellular membranes of neuronal cell bodies, with specific N-terminal fusions indicative of CASY-1 ectodomain release into the extracellular space; domain-specific rescue experiments indicate that the secreted, proteolytically processed CASY-1 extracellular domain is sufficient to rescue salt chemotaxis learning defects.

Data type

protein coding
Date made available2004
PublisherWormbase

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