The reporter is strongly expressed in H and V cells in both wild-type and mir-71(lf) worms. Because miRNA-mediated gene silencing may cause translational inhibition or mRNA degradation or both (19), the relatively small increase of UNC-31 in mir-71(lf) animals was still consistent with unc-31 being a target of miR-71. To test whether the activity of the InsR pathway was down-regulated by miR-71, we first examined the endogenous expression of components of the InsR pathway in mir-71(lf). (C) The poor survival rate of daf-16(mu86, null) was enhanced by mir-71(lf).
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- 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.
- (F) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that an hbl-1 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms and slightly derepressed in mir-71(lf) mutants.
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- We speculate that the expression of heterochronic genes controlling the L2/L3 programs, including that of hbl-1 and lin-42, are increased during L1 diapause to arrest the developmental progression, and miR-71 is probably required to suppress these “excess” signals during the recovery phase (Fig. S5).
- The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to starvation by entering developmental arrest at multiple stages of its life cycle (1).
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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. The effect observed in ain-1(lf) mutants is likely the consequence of the combined effects of attenuating functions of these individual miRNAs. To identify individual miRNAs that play prominent roles in L1 diapause, we screened 72 available mutant strains of individual miRNAs and miRNA families (87 miRNAs in total) using the L1 starvation assay. (B) Survival rate of single and double mutants to indicate the functional relationship between ain-1 and age-1.
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(H) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that a lin-42 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms (2/2 transgenic lines) and prominently derepressed in mir-71(−) worms (2/2 transgenic lines). The numbers on each image indicate how many worms of the examined ones displayed the indicated phenotype. These results suggest that miR-71 regulates the expression of unc-31 and age-1 through their 3′UTRs. Note that there are extra GFP-positive cells (red arrows) in mir-71(lf) mutants.
(Right panels) The gonad of the same animals in the Left panels to indicate the similar developmental stage. The reporter construct, the control plasmid, and a transformation marker plasmid were coinjected into worms to generate the extrachromosomal arrays for analysis. 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. Elegans Genetic Center (reference 257) and an N2 strain from the laboratory stock, respectively.
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(C) The reduced L1 starvation survival rate of ain-1(lf) mutants was significantly suppressed by a null allele of unc-31. Compromising overall miRNA function dramatically reduces the survival rate of L1 worms in starvation-induced diapause, and the effect can be significantly suppressed by an age-1/PI3K mutation. 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. (F) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that an hbl-1 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms and slightly derepressed in mir-71(lf) mutants. (E) DIC images showing that hbl-1(RNAi) caused precocious VPC divisions in late L2/early L3 in both wild-type and mir-71(lf) worms recovered from 4 d of L1 starvation. (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.
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