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Gene expression changes in dauer defective strains

Organism Icon Caenorhabditis elegans
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Technology Badge IconIllumina HiSeq 2500

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Animals change developmental fates in response to external cues. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, unfavorable environmental conditions induce a state of diapause known as dauer by inhibiting the conserved DAF-2 insulin-like signaling (ILS) pathway through incompletely understood mechanisms. We previously established a role for the C. elegans dosage compensation protein DPY-21 in the control of dauer arrest and DAF-2 ILS. Here we show that dosage compensation acts through the histone H4 lysine 20 methyltransferase SET-4 to promote dauer arrest in part by repressing the X-linked ins-9 gene, which encodes a new agonist insulin-like peptide (ILP) expressed specifically in the paired ASI sensory neurons that are required for dauer bypass. ins-9 repression in dauer-constitutive mutants requires DPY-21, SET-4, and the FoxO transcription factor DAF-16, which is the main target of DAF-2 ILS. In contrast, autosomal genes encoding major agonist ILPs that promote reproductive development are not repressed by DPY-21, SET-4, or DAF-16/FoxO. Our results implicate the dosage compensation machinery as a sensory rheostat that reinforces developmental fates in response to environmental cues by modulating autocrine and paracrine DAF-2 ILS. Overall design: 35 total samples, 7 strains collected in 5 replicates each. C elegans larvae were grown for 24 hr at 25C (developmental stage L2D in eak-7;akt-1 background). L2D animals were compared to wild type animals and dauer-defective compound mutants deficient in daf-16, dpy-21, set-4 or daf-12.
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