Well Beyond Recovery

Postitatud November 28, 2024

Previous studies showed that the release of postdocking calcium-regulated dense-core vesicles, the insulin receptor (InsR) pathway, the AMPK pathway, and protein chaperones are required for the long-term survival of starved L1 worms (2–4). Unlike dauer diapause, L1 diapause is not accompanied by life cycle changes and has not been shown to require certain signaling pathways that control the formation of dauer diapause such as TGF-β signaling (daf-1, daf-7) and nuclear hormone receptor (daf-12) (2, 3). The coordinated entrance into developmental arrest, long-term survival, and the reinitiation of development upon food availability are important biological processes to investigate. Different organisms have developed versatile growth arrest strategies to overcome starvation-induced metabolic and developmental problems. The presented results indicate that interactions between multiple miRNAs and likely a large number of their mRNA targets in multiple pathways regulate the response to starvation-induced L1 diapause.

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We then compared the expression of a hbl-1 3′UTR reporter (18) in the mir-71(lf) mutants with that in wild type and found that the expression of this reporter was slightly derepressed at L3 in the mir-71 mutant (Fig. 4 F and G). (D) Bar graph showing that the delayed VPC timing defect of mir-71(lf) worms was enhanced by daf-16(lf) after 1 or 3 d of L1 starvation. (B) Bar graph showing the correlation between the severity of the retarded vulval precursor cell (VPC) timing defect of mir-71(lf) mutants and the duration of L1 starvation.
To investigate the roles of miRNAs in animal survival during starvation-induced L1 diapause, we impaired the overall miRISC function with loss-of-function (lf) mutants of ain-1 (ku322, ku425, and tm3681) and ain-2(tm2432) and examined their L1 starvation survival rate (Materials and Methods). The strong suppression of the mir-71(lf) defect by hbl-1(RNAi), and the relatively weak effect of miR-71 on hbl-1 expression, are consistent with the idea that miR-71 exerts its role by modulating activities of multiple genes related to hbl-1 function in developmental timing. In contrast, the nuclear-localized GFP expression under the control of the 3′UTR of age-1(Fig. 3 C and D) or unc-31 (Fig. 3 E and F) was strongly repressed in the control worms, but prominently derepressed in mir-71(lf) mutant worms. If the 3′UTR of age-1 or unc-31 is repressed by miR-71, the GFP expression will be repressed in tissues where miR-71 is expressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the same tissues of mir-71(lf) worms. (A) The mir-71(n4115, lf) mutant displayed severe reduction in L1 starvation survival rate, and the reduced survival rate of mir-71(lf) was suppressed by a reduction-of-function allele of age-1(hx546). (C) The reduced L1 starvation survival rate of ain-1(lf) mutants was significantly suppressed by a null allele of unc-31.
MiR-71 regulates vulval cell division during recovery of starved L1 worms. These results indicate that miR-71 is not essential for arresting seam cell or M-cell divisions during L1 diapause, suggesting that miR-71 function is distinct from DAF-16 function. DAF-16 (the FOXO homolog in C. elegans) has been shown to play an important role in cell cycle arrest and developmental progression partly by promoting cki-1 expression in some somatic cells during L1 arrest (2).
Whereas the vulva of wild-type worms developed into the pyramidal stage (81 of 82 worms), the P6.p of mir-71(n4115, lf) mutant worms divided only once (83 of 89 worms). The computation-based prediction that age-1 and pdk-1 are potential targets of miR-71 was also reported in a recent study focusing on miRNA functions in aging where the mRNA level of pdk-1 was shown to be up-regulated in mir-71 worms (14). (C) Fluorescence and differential interference contrast (DIC) images showing that the age-1 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms (3/4 transgenic lines) but not in mir-71(lf) worms (4/4 transgenic lines). The transcript level of unc-31 was increased in mir-71(lf) worms, compared with that of wild-type controls that were normalized to the value of 1. MiR-71 represses the expression of age-1 and unc-31 through the actions on their 3′UTR, but miR-71 is not required for arresting M cell division during L1 diapause.

(C) Bar graph showing that the delayed VPC timing defects of mir-71(lf) worms was suppressed by an unc-31(lf) mutation and partially suppressed by an age-1(rf) mutation.
MiR-71 regulates vulval cell division during recovery of starved L1 worms.
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(B) The severely reduced survival rate of the mir-71(lf) mutant was suppressed by a null allele of unc-31(e928).
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to starvation by entering developmental arrest at multiple stages of its life cycle (1).

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We further examined worms recovering from 4 d of L1 starvation and found that around 90% of the mir-71(lf) mutants displayed retarded vulval precursor cell (VPC) division, compared with less than 5% in wild type (Fig. 4A). We found that the 3′UTRs of several genes of the InsR pathway, including unc-31, age-1, pdk-1, akt-2, and sgk-1, contain predicted miR-71 targeting sites (as predicted by TargetScan and mirWIP). (H and I) Fluorescence images (H) and statistical data (I) showing that the M cell diveded in fed animals but remained undivided in 4-, 7-, or 11-d–starved L1 wild-type and mir-71(lf) worms. (E) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that the unc-31 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+)worms (2/2 transgenic lines) but not in mir-71(lf) worms (4/4 transgenic lines). We found that the poor survival rate of daf-16(mu86)(lf) was further decreased by mir-71(lf) (Fig. 2C), consistent with the notion that a portion of miR-71 activities regulate genes that act in parallel to UNC-31–mediated InsR/PI3K signaling for long-term survival during L1 diapause. Mutating miR-71 drastically reduces the survival rate of animals in L1 diapause, and the effect can be suppressed by mutations of insulin receptor pathway genes age-1 and unc-31.
When late, first larval stage (L1) worms sense unfavorable conditions, they enter revery play login an alternative and long-lived larval stage called dauer larvae (or dauer diapause). The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to starvation by entering developmental arrest at multiple stages of its life cycle (1). Extreme climate events such as droughts and heatwaves are intensifying under climate change, yet their combined effects on plant recovery remain unclear. These pages contain all relevant country-specific information, including the recovery and resilience plans, the Commission’s assessment of the plans as well as information on payments requested by the Member States and funds paid out by the Commission.
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Individual GFP reporter constructs for candidate genes (4 ng/μL) and the mCherry internal control plasmid (4 ng/μL) were mixed with unc-119 rescuing plasmid (20 ng/μL) and pBluescript KS+ (72 ng/μL) and coinjected into unc-119(ed3) and mir-71(n4115); unc-119(ed3) worms following standard protocols (32). Knocking down lit-1 by RNAi in mir-71(lf); lin-42(lf) double mutants caused no significant suppression of the VPC timing defects of mir-71(lf) worms. To determine the functional relationship of miR-71 with LIN-42 and LIT-1, mir-71(lf); lin-42(lf) L1 worms were starved for 4 d and recovered on lit-1(RNAi) plates.

Furthermore, the observed derepression of individual genes by mir-71(lf) seemed too weak to account for the phenotype, consistent with the idea that a prominent phenotype of an miRNA mutation is caused by the collective effect of changing expression in many genes, an important property of miRNA-mediated gene regulation.
To investigate the roles of miRNAs in animal survival during starvation-induced L1 diapause, we impaired the overall miRISC function with loss-of-function (lf) mutants of ain-1 (ku322, ku425, and tm3681) and ain-2(tm2432) and examined their L1 starvation survival rate (Materials and Methods).
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The computation-based prediction that age-1 and pdk-1 are potential targets of miR-71 was also reported in a recent study focusing on miRNA functions in aging where the mRNA level of pdk-1 was shown to be up-regulated in mir-71 worms (14).
These results indicate that miR-71 is not essential for arresting seam cell or M-cell divisions during L1 diapause, suggesting that miR-71 function is distinct from DAF-16 function.
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Although the complete removal of miRNA functions causes embryonic lethality or infertility in worms, a partial disruption of overall miRNA functions by mutating either ain-1 or ain-2 provides an effective way to investigate miRNA functions (16, 17). However, we found that the reporter transgene with the lin-42 3′UTR was significantly repressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the mir-71(lf) worms (Fig. 4 H and I). This is consistent with hbl-1 being one of the downstream targets of miR-71, although this modest effect alone is not expected to account for the vulval developmental phenotype in mir-71 mutant. In starved L1 worms, we detected only a slight increase in the mRNA level of hbl-1 in mir-71 mutants compared with that in wild type (∼10%), which may not be biologically significant. In contrast, the mir-71(lf) mutant worms recovering on hbl-1(RNAi) displayed precocious VPC divisions similar to that seen in wild type (Fig. 4E).
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The primers that were used to amplify the 3′UTR of candidate genes are available upon request. 3′UTRs of genes of interest were cloned into the modified pPD129.57 vector as described previously (18). The data for 3′UTR expression and for VPC timing were analyzed using χ2 test.
To test the hypothesis that these developmental timing genes mediate the regulatory role of miR-71 in larval development during recovery from starvation-induced L1 diapause, we examined whether knocking down HBL-1 function can suppress the retarded VPC timing defect of mir-71(lf). Reduction-of-function mutation (rf) in the age-1/PI3 kinase gene, age-1(hx546), made worms long-lived in the L1 starvation assay and was able to suppress the reduced L1 survival rate of mir-71(lf); the rate of the double mutants was comparable to that of wild type (Fig. 2A). Our genetic analysis indicated that for both L1 diapause survival and developmental recovery functions, miR-71 regulates expressions of genes in both the insulin receptor-dependent and -independent pathways.

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On the other hand, the role of a particular miRNA (miR-71) is executed by repressing the expression of many genes in multiple pathways. On one hand, we showed that deletions of a good number of miRNAs have varying impacts on the L1 diapause survival rate, although they may effect the rate through different mechanisms. Instead, many specific physiological functions, such as the starvation-induced stress response, are regulated by a miRNA-target network, often involving multiple miRNAs and a large number of their targets. We found that the known developmental timing genes, hbl-1, lin-42, and lit-1, were at the top of the list (TargetScan). To understand how miR-71 affects VPC division, we searched its predicted targets for potential genes involved in regulating developmental timing. These results indicate that miR-71 plays a significant role in larval development of animals recovering from L1 diapause and likely does so by regulating the expression of components of the insulin receptor/DAF-16 pathway, as well as factors acting downstream, or in parallel to, DAF-16.