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Título: | Absence of ataxin-3 leads to enhanced stress response in C. elegans |
Autor(es): | Rodrigues, Ana João Carvalho, Andreia Neves Castro, Andreia Cristiana Teixeira de Rokka, Anne Corthals, Gary Logarinho, Elsa Maciel, P. |
Data: | 19-Abr-2011 |
Editora: | Public Library of Science (PLOS) |
Revista: | PLoS ONE |
Resumo(s): | Ataxin-3, the protein involved in Machado-Joseph disease, is able to bind ubiquitylated substrates and act as a deubiquitylating enzyme in vitro, and it has been involved in the modulation of protein degradation by the ubiquitinproteasome pathway. C. elegans and mouse ataxin-3 knockout models are viable and without any obvious phenotype in a basal condition however their phenotype in stress situations has never been described. Considering the role of ataxin-3 in the protein degradation pathway, we analyzed the effects of heat shock, a known protein homeostasis stressor, in C. elegans ataxin-3 (ATX-3) knockout animals. We found that ATX-3 mutants have an exacerbated stress response and survive significantly better than wild type animals when subjected to a noxious heat shock stimulus. This increased thermotolerance of mutants was further enhanced by pre-exposure to a mild heat shock. At a molecular level, ATX-3 mutants have a distinct transcriptomic and proteomic profile with several molecular chaperones abnormally up-regulated during heat shock and recovery, consistent with the observed resistance phenotype. The improved thermotolerancein ATX-3 mutants is independent of heat shock factor 1, the maestro of the heat shock response, but fully dependent on DAF-16, a critical stress responsive transcription factor involved in longevity and stress resistance. We also show that the increased thermotolerance of ATX-3 mutants is mainly due to HSP-16.2, C12C8.1 and F44E5.5 given that the knockdown of these heat shock proteins using RNA interference causes the phenotype to revert. This report suggests that the absence of ATX-3 activates the DAF-16 pathway leading to an overexpression of molecular chaperones, which yields knockout animals with an improved capacity for dealing with deleterious stimuli. |
Tipo: | Artigo |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/16939 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018512 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Versão da editora: | http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018512 |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | ICVS - Artigos em revistas internacionais / Papers in international journals |
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