The reporter construct, the control plasmid, and a transformation marker plasmid were coinjected into worms to generate the extrachromosomal arrays for analysis. Elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae, leading us to focus further analyses on these two genes. We further examined the functional relationship between miR-71 and DAF-16, a FOXO transcription factor acting critically and negatively downstream of AGE-1/PI3K in the InsR pathway. Because the InsR pathway was previously shown to play a prominent role in L1 diapause (2, 3), we examined genetic interactions between miR-71 and different components of the InsR pathway.
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Elegans Genetic Center (reference 257) and an N2 strain from the laboratory stock, respectively. Wild-type strains A and B are an N2 strain recently obtained from the C. (A) Survival rate curves of wild-type and mutant strains, as indicated. This is consistent with the previous reports that AIN-1 and AIN-2 are functional homologs with overlapping biochemical roles (16, 17). The roles of InsRs have also been implicated in arresting the cell cycle in germ cells and a portion of somatic cells during L1 diapause (2, 4). Contributed new reagents/analytic tools; X.Z., R.Z., and M.H.
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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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- Different organisms have developed versatile growth arrest strategies to overcome starvation-induced metabolic and developmental problems.
- We used a dual-color 3′UTR reporter system (18) to test the computational, prediction-based hypothesis that the 3′UTRs of age-1 and unc-31 are directly regulated by miR-71 (Fig. 3B and Materials and Methods).
- 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).
- Contributed new reagents/analytic tools; X.Z., R.Z., and M.H.
- Furthermore, worms that are long-lived due to dietary restriction or decreased mitochondrial respiratory rates are short-lived during L1 diapause, suggesting that the mechanisms controlling L1 starvation survival are different at least in some aspects from those controlling aging (3).
- 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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- This is consistent with the previous reports that AIN-1 and AIN-2 are functional homologs with overlapping biochemical roles (16, 17).
- The coordinated entrance into developmental arrest, long-term survival, and the reinitiation of development upon food availability are important biological processes to investigate.
- 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.
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- Here we show that compromising overall microRNA (miRNA) functions or mutating certain individual miRNAs impairs the long-term survival of nematodes during starvation-induced L1 diapause.