Gene
- Public Gene Name
- unc-120
- Sequence Name
- D1081.2
- WB ID
- WBGene00006844
- Description
- unc-120 encodes a member of the MADS-box family of transcription factors that is most closely related to Drosophila blistered and the vertebrate serum response factors (SRFs); UNC-120 is required for locomotion and muscle development and for formation of the normal number of muscle A and I bands; UNC-120 is also required for maintaining wild-type expression levels of the muscle components actin and myosin; UNC-120 is first expressed in the early embryo in body wall muscle precursors and later is expressed in both body wall and vulval muscles.
