Staying alive in adversity: transcriptome dynamics in the stress-resistant dauer larva.

Functional & Integrative Genomics
Suzan J Holt

Abstract

In response to food depletion and overcrowding, the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans can arrest development and form an alternate third larval stage called the dauer. Though nonfeeding, the dauer larva is long lived and stress resistant. Metabolic and transcription rates are lowered but the transcriptome of the dauer is complex. In this study, distribution analysis of transcript profiles generated by Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) in dauer larvae and in mixed developmental stages is presented. An inverse relationship was observed between frequency and abundance/copy number of SAGE tag types (transcripts) in both profiles. In the dauer profile, a relatively greater proportion of highly abundant transcripts was counterbalanced by a smaller fraction of low to moderately abundant transcripts. Comparisons of abundant tag counts between the two profiles revealed relative enrichment in the dauer profile of transcripts with predicted or known involvement in ribosome biogenesis and protein synthesis, membrane transport, and immune responses. Translation-coupled mRNA decay is proposed as part of an immune-like stress response in the dauer larva. An influence of genomic region on transcript level may reflect the coordinatio...Continue Reading

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