Immediate activation of chemosensory neuron gene expression by bacterial metabolites is selectively induced by distinct cyclic GMP-dependent pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans

English version

Autoři: Jaeseok Park ^aff001; Joshua D. Meisel ^aff002; Dennis H. Kim ^aff001
Působiště autorů: Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America ^aff001; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America ^aff002
Vyšlo v časopise: Immediate activation of chemosensory neuron gene expression by bacterial metabolites is selectively induced by distinct cyclic GMP-dependent pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet 16(8): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008505
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008505

Souhrn

Dynamic gene expression in neurons shapes fundamental processes in the nervous systems of animals. However, how neuronal activation by different stimuli can lead to distinct transcriptional responses is not well understood. We have been studying how microbial metabolites modulate gene expression in chemosensory neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans. Considering the diverse environmental stimuli that can activate chemosensory neurons of C. elegans, we sought to understand how specific transcriptional responses can be generated in these neurons in response to distinct cues. We have focused on the mechanism of rapid (<6 min) and selective transcriptional induction of daf-7, a gene encoding a TGF-β ligand, in the ASJ chemosensory neurons in response to the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. DAF-7 is required for the protective behavioral avoidance of P. aeruginosa by C. elegans. Here, we define the involvement of two distinct cyclic GMP (cGMP)-dependent pathways that are required for daf-7 expression in the ASJ neuron pair in response to P. aeruginosa. We show that a calcium-independent pathway dependent on the cGMP-dependent protein kinase G (PKG) EGL-4, and a canonical calcium-dependent signaling pathway dependent on the activity of a cyclic nucleotide-gated channel subunit CNG-2, function in parallel to activate rapid, selective transcription of daf-7 in response to P. aeruginosa metabolites. Our data suggest that fast, selective early transcription of neuronal genes require PKG in shaping responses to distinct microbial stimuli in a pair of C. elegans chemosensory neurons.

Klíčová slova:

Caenorhabditis elegans – cGMP signaling – DNA transcription – Gene expression – Metabolic pathways – Neurons – Pseudomonas aeruginosa – Signal transduction

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