Regulated Disruption of Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans Reveals New Functions in Feeding and Embryogenesis
AUTOR(ES)
Walker, Denise S.
FONTE
The American Society for Cell Biology
RESUMO
Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) is an important second messenger in animal cells and is central to a wide range of cellular responses. The major intracellular activity of IP3 is to regulate release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores through IP3 receptors (IP3Rs). We describe a system for the transient disruption of IP3 signaling in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. The IP3 binding domain of the C. elegans IP3R, ITR-1, was expressed from heat shock-induced promoters in live animals. This results in a dominant-negative effect caused by the overexpressed IP3 binding domain acting as an IP3 “sponge.” Disruption of IP3 signaling resulted in disrupted defecation, a phenotype predicted by previous genetic studies. This approach also identified two new IP3-mediated processes. First, the up-regulation of pharyngeal pumping in response to food is dependent on IP3 signaling. RNA-mediated interference studies and analysis of itr-1 mutants show that this process is also IP3R dependent. Second, the tissue-specific expression of the dominant-negative construct enabled us to circumvent the sterility associated with loss of IP3 signaling through the IP3R and thus determine that IP3-mediated signaling is required for multiple steps in embryogenesis, including cytokinesis and gastrulation.
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