ZFIN ID: ZDB-GENE-080102-2

Gene Name:choline acetyltransferase
Gene Symbol: chat

Previous Names: baj
Nomenclature History

Note:  Yokogawa et al. (2007) identified the chat gene with Ensembl ENSDARG00000015854 on Chr. 13.

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GENE EXPRESSION:(current status)

All expression data:	8 figure(s) from 5 publications
Wild Type Stages, Structures:	Pharyngula:Prim-5 (24.00h-30.00h) to Adult (90d-730d, breeding adult)
	caudal tuberculum, dorsal periventricular hypothalamus ... (all 12)

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MUTANTS AND TARGETED KNOCKDOWNS:

Mutant line(s):   3 genotypes
Allele(s):   tf247

Phenotype: (current status)

Data:	6 figures from 2 publications
Observed in:	musculoskeletal movement, neuromuscular synaptic transmission, receptor clustering, startle response, whole organism

Knockdown reagents: MO1-chat (1) ,   MO2-chat (1)

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GENE PRODUCTS:

Gene Ontology

Ontology	GO Term
Biological Process	neurotransmitter biosynthetic process
Molecular Function	acyltransferase activity (more)

All GO Terms (4)

Protein Families, Domains and Sites:

InterPro:IPR000542 (1)

PROSITE:PS00439 (1) PROSITE:PS00440 (1)

Pfam:PF00755 (1)

EC:2.3.1.6 (1)

Gene Product Description

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ANTIBODIES:

Ab1-chat (5)

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SEGMENT (CLONE AND PROBE) RELATIONSHIPS:

chat Contained in

[BAC] CH211-222I16    (order this)

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SEQUENCE INFORMATION:

Type	Accession #	Length (bp/aa)	Analysis
RNA	RefSeq:NM_001130719 (1)	1914 bp	- Select Tool - ZFIN BLAST NCBI BLAST Ensembl UCSC BLAT
Genomic	GenBank:BX927294 (1)	104811 bp	- Select Tool - MegaBLAST Ensembl
Polypeptide	UniProtKB:B2ZGJ1 (1)	637 aa	- Select Tool - ZFIN BLAST Ensembl SIB BLAST
Sequence Clusters	UniGene:117574 (1)
All Sequence Information (7)

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OTHER  chat  GENE / MARKER PAGES:

Entrez Gene:100170938 (1)

Ensembl(Zv8):ENSDARG00000015854 (1)

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MAPPING INFORMATION:

LG:  13 ,  22  Details

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ORTHOLOGY:

None submitted.

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CITATIONS   (18)