Involved in intraciliary transport and non-motile cilium assembly. Located in dendrite and neuronal cell body. Is expressed in ciliated neurons and hypodermis. Orthologous to human IFT46 (intraflagellar transport 46).
WB Description
dyf-6 encodes several proteins that, while novel, contain orthologs in Drosophila and mammals; during development, dyf-6 activity is essential for establishing the normal dendritic length of the amphid and phasmid chemosensory neurons; a DYF-6::GFP reporter is expressed in amphid and phasmid neurons where it: 1) localizes to dendritic bodies and endings as well as to cell bodies, and 2) appears to undergo intraflagellar transport (IFT); DYF-6::GFP is also seen in hypodermal cells and in additional neurons, including inner labial neurons and a lateral neuron in the vicinity of PDE; genetic mosaic analyses indicate that dyf-6 functions autonomously at the level of the amphid dendritic bundle to regulate proper dendritic morphology.