CELE_C36A4.4

C36A4.4 encodes a putative UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase, paralogous to K06B9.2 and orthologous to human UAP1 (OMIM:602862) and UAP1L1; C36A4.4 is thought to catalyse the fourth step of the hexosamine pathway to UDP-N-acetylglucosamine or UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine; C36A4.4 transcripts are enriched during oogenesis; C36A4.4(RNAi) animals have an osmotically-sensitive embryonic lethal phenotype, presumably because of defects in chitin and eggshell synthesis.

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