FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
Gene: Cele\ced-4
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General Information
Symbol
Cele\ced-4
Species
C. elegans
Name
cell death protein 4
Annotation Symbol
Feature Type
engineered_foreign_gene
FlyBase ID
FBgn0026140
Gene Model Status
Not Applicable
Stock Availability
None publicly available
Gene Summary
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Key Links
Foreign Gene Data

Foreign sequence; species == Caenorhabditis elegans; gene == ced-4; WormBase:WBGene00000418.

(FlyBase Curators, 1992-)
Summaries
Alleles, Insertions, Transgenic Constructs
Classical and Insertion Alleles ( 0 )
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Transgenic Constructs ( 2 )
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Transgenic constructs containing/affecting coding region of Cele\ced-4
Transgenic constructs containing regulatory region of Cele\ced-4
Variants
Variant Molecular Consequences
Alleles Representing Disease-Implicated Variants
Phenotypes
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eye
eye photoreceptor cell
pigment cell
Orthologs
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Model Organism Orthologs (via DIOPT v9.1)
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eggNOG
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OMA
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Panther
Phylome
SonicParanoid
Alignment
Complementation?
Transgene?
Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly) (2)
CG7568
1 of 14
Yes
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CG10931
1 of 14
Yes
No
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Human Disease Associations
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    Functional Complementation Data
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    Stocks and Reagents
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    Other Comments

    CED-4 function is conserved in Drosophila. A CED-4-like P-loop-containing ATPase is involved in the activation of Ice to promote the cell death program in Drosophila.

    (Kanuka et al., 1999)
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    Nomenclature History
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    Nomenclature comments
    Etymology
    Synonyms and Secondary IDs (3)
    Reported As
    Symbol Synonym
    Cele\ced-4
    ced-4
    Name Synonyms
    cell death protein 4
    Secondary FlyBase IDs
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      External Crossreferences and Linkouts ( 3 )
      Sequence Crossreferences
      NCBI Gene - Gene integrates information from a wide range of species. A record may include nomenclature, Reference Sequences (RefSeqs), maps, pathways, variations, phenotypes, and links to genome-, phenotype-, and locus-specific resources worldwide.
      Other crossreferences
      MARRVEL_MODEL - MARRVEL (model organism gene)
      WormBase - WormBase Database
      References (5)