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Consistent with the observation described above, the 4-d–starved mir-71(lf) mutants recovering on the RNAi control plates displayed the highly penetrant retarded defect in VPC division. If this were true, the starved mir-71(lf); daf-16(lf) double-mutant worms should show a slow growth phenotype similar to that of daf-16(lf) worms, but no specific VPC timing defect. (H) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that a lin-42 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms (2/2 transgenic lines) and prominently derepressed in mir-71(−) worms (2/2 transgenic lines). We thus asked whether miR-71 was required for the reinitiation of developmental programs during the recovery phase after L1 starvation. These results suggest that miR-71 regulates the expression of unc-31 and age-1 through their 3′UTRs. Note that there are extra GFP-positive cells (red arrows) in mir-71(lf) mutants.
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- This result is consistent with the observation that miR-71 is specifically required for the starvation-induced stress response (Fig. S5).
- In this study, we addressed the questions of whether and how miRNAs impact developmental arrest and the long-term survival of early L1 stage worms in response to food starvation.
- However, when newly hatched L1 worms encounter an environment with no food, developmental programs arrest and the worm enters L1 diapause.
- (B) Bar graph showing the correlation between the severity of the retarded vulval precursor cell (VPC) timing defect of mir-71(lf) mutants and the duration of L1 starvation.
- However, we found that the reporter transgene with the lin-42 3′UTR was significantly repressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the mir-71(lf) worms (Fig. 4 H and I).
A recent study showed that the expression of miR-71 was significantly increased relative to other miRNAs in starved L1 worms (15). However, miR-71 does not appear to regulate all postembryonic development during L1 diapause recovery. Unlike classical heterochronic miRNAs such as lin-4 and let-7, the role of miR-71 in vulval cell division is essential in animals recovering from starvation-induced L1 diapause, but not in animals hatched on plates with food. As pointed out above, multiple miRNAs in addition to miR-71 and the let-7 family miRNAs have roles in L1 diapause, and they may regulate the expression of many diverse targets that may include, but are not limited to, factors involved in UNC-31–InsR-signaling activities.
miR-71 Regulates the Timing of Vulval Cell Division in Animals Recovering from L1 Diapause.
(E) DIC images showing that hbl-1(RNAi) caused precocious VPC divisions in late L2/early L3 in both wild-type and mir-71(lf) worms recovered from 4 d of L1 starvation. Note that the daf-16(lf) worms recovering from 3 d of L1 starvation displayed a ∼12-h delay in overall development and that the mir-71(lf); daf-16(lf) double mutants displayed an ∼24-h delay. (C) Bar graph showing that the delayed VPC timing defects of mir-71(lf) worms was suppressed by an unc-31(lf) mutation and partially suppressed by an age-1(rf) mutation. In worms that recovered from 4 d of L1 starvation, we also found that a significant portion of the mir-71(lf) mutants displayed egg-laying defects and overproliferating or precociously reflexed gonads.
This result is consistent with the observation that miR-71 is specifically required for the starvation-induced stress response (Fig. S5). For example, we observed a robust retarded mutant phenotype in the vulval lineage but did not see obvious defects in seam cell differentiation or alae formation. It seems plausible that miRNAs that control developmental timing are also involved in regulating the metabolic rate through repressing the InsR pathway activity.