As W01A8.1 and human perilipins appear to be the best mutual reciprocal PSI - BLAST and HHpred hits, W01A8.1 is a very good candidate for a C. elegans orthologue of perilipin.
Clear orthologues of ATGL, HSL, MGL, ABHD5 and catalytic and regulatory subunits of PKA have been identified in C. elegans (ATGL - 1, HOSL - 1, LID - 1, KIN - 1, KIN - 2 respectively (Lee et al., 2014; Xie & Roy, 2015)(Fig. 7).
Here we identify the protein encoded by the W01A8.1 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans as the closest homologue and likely orthologue of metazoan perilipin.