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).
Non-Unc stable transgenic lines were maintained, and the expression of GFP and mCherry were observed under a Zeiss Axiovision II microscope. Three days later, the number of worms that were L2 or older was recorded as number of survived worms (Ns), and the survival rate was calculated as Ns/Np, which is an estimation of survived worms in the whole population. MT12993 mir-71(n4115) worms were outcrossed with N2 for four generations before any test except the initial screen.
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RRF Regulation
(D) A representative chart of the L1 starvation survival rates of different miRNA mutants. However, it remains unclear how, and to what extent, miRNAs coordinate animal survival and development in response to stresses. However, the mechanisms that coordinate the long-term survival, overall developmental arrest, and reinitiation remain to be investigated. However, when newly hatched L1 worms encounter an environment with no food, developmental programs arrest and the worm enters L1 diapause.
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.
These results compelled us to examine specific interactions between individual miRNAs and their targets to gain mechanistic insights. This result suggests that miR-71 likely functions upstream of, or in parallel to, HBL-1 in regulating VPC timing. Moreover, the expression of hbl-1 is repressed by let-7 family miRNAs at L3 during normal development, and the hyperactivity of hbl-1 caused by failure of miRNA regulation leads to retarded development (26).
- (Right panels) The gonad of the same animals in the Left panels to indicate the similar developmental stage.
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- (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).
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- The numbers on each image indicate how many worms of the examined ones displayed the indicated phenotype.
