CELE_F32H2.5, F32H2.5

fasn-1 encodes a fatty acid synthase, orthologous to human FASN (OMIM:600212); CEP-1 is required for fully normal fasn-1 expression in vivo; CEP-1 drives transcription of luciferase reporters whose promoters contains either of two putative CEP-1 binding sites (FAS-T1 and FAS-T2) found in the fasn-1 gene, and this activity is partially lost by mutation of conserved CEP-1 residues (R298 or H310); in humans, the CEP-1 ortholog isoforms TAp73alpha and deltaNp63alpha bind the human FASN gene, suggesting that FASN genes might be a conserved direct target of p53-like proteins in metazoa; fasn-1 transcription is moderately activated (2 to 4-fold) in L1 or L2 larvae starved for 12 hours, but is not so activated in later larvae or adults.

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