Gene Information: kin-2

Strains carrying this gene

Strain	Genotype	Description
KG532	kin-2(ce179) X.	Adults generally short, although some can reach near normal length. Slow growth rate. Backing can be loopy, but does not like to back. Strongly hypersensitive to stimuli. Relatively constant spontaneous movement. Some clustering especially in response to stimuli. Mature adults have vulval bump. Most young adults are Egl-c and young embryos can be found on the plate. Some mature adults become moderately Egl-d. Recessive allele. Males are small and slow growing. Mutation is R92C, which is a conserved residue in the 10 amino acid inhibitory domain that normally functions to keep protein kinase A turned off in the absence of cAMP. Population tends to severely crash within 2-3 weeks of starvation.
VC844	+/szT1 [lon-2(e678)] I; kin-2(ok248)/szT1 X.	R07E4.6. Apparent homozygous lethal deletion chromosome balanced by lon-2-marked translocation. Heterozygotes are WT, and segregate WT, arrested szT1 aneuploids, lon-2 males (szT1 hemizygotes) and ok248 homozygotes (arrest stage/phenotype undetermined). Pick WT and check for correct segregation of progeny to maintain. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Reverse Genetics Core Facility at the University of British Columbia, which is part of the international C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807