Function
Plays a role in non-canonical Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling to regulate convergent extension cell movements during gastrulation. Acts together with scrib and prickle1 and localizes prickle1 and dvl2/dsh to the plasma membrane. Has an overlapping role with kny during both convergent extension and eye development. In the eye, involved in establishing proper alignment of the anterior neural plate and midline cells expressing shha and shhb/twhh. Has indirect effects on a number of other developmental processes including notochord shape formation, neural progenitor cell morphogenesis, segregation of somites and adaxial cell development. Together with prickle1, required for the posterior (caudal) movement of branchiomotor neurons in the hindbrain independently of, and a few hours after, convergent extension (PubMed:11780127, Ref.2, PubMed:9007230, PubMed:9007234, PubMed:9007236, PubMed:9808788, PubMed:10996075, PubMed:10992326, PubMed:11820812, PubMed:12105418, PubMed:12874125, PubMed:15829519, PubMed:16407953, PubMed:17239849). May be required for cell surface localization of fzd3 and fzd6 in the inner ear (By similarity).
Sequence
MDNESQYSGYSYKSSHSRSSRKHRDRRDRHRSKSRDSSSRGDKSVTIQAPGEPLLDAESTRGDDRDDNWGETTTVVTGTSEHSVSNEDLTRASKELEDSSPLECRRFAGPIVSGVLGLFALLTPLAFLLLPQLLWRDSLEPCGTPCEGLYVSLAFKLLVLLISSWALFLRPSRSTLPRFFVFRCLLMALVFLFVASYWLFYGVRVLEPRERDYRGIVGYAVSLVDALLFIQYLALVLLEVRHLRPAFCLKVVRTTDGASRFYNVGHLSIQRAAVWVLDHYYTDFPVYNPALLNLPKSILSKKMSGFKVYSLGEENSTNNSTGQSRAMIAAAARRRDNSHNEYYYEEAEMDRRVRKRKARLVVAVEEAFTHIKRLQDDEAAASPKHPREVMDPREAAQAIFAPMARAMQKYLRTTRQQPYHSMESIISHLQFCITHNMTPKAFLERYLTPGPTMQYQRENGRGRQWTLVSEEPVTAALRQGLVFSLRRLDFALVVTVTPLPFLNLGEEFIDPKSHKFVMRLQSETSV