Tharyan, Rebecca George (2019). Transcription factor NFYB-1 regulates mitochondrial function and promotes longevity induced by mitochondrial impairment. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Mitochondrial integrity is critical for cellular function and organismal life span, yet the underlying mechanisms linking mitochondrial function to other intracellular organelles and animal longevity is unclear. In this study, we addressed these questions in nematode C. elegans. Upon shift from food to no food prior to sexual maturation, the nematode C. elegans can enter an adult reproductive diapause (ARD), during which they undergo metabolic remodelling and can live months without food. When reintroduced to food, ARD worms exit the ARD and recover. We found mitochondrial number, morphology and respiration rate to be regulated under ARD entry and exit. Additionally, ARD longevity is impacted by mitochondrial fusion/fission factors. We found several mitochondrial markers to be downregulated upon ARD entry and upregulated upon ARD exit, most prominently the nuclear encoded mitochondrial gene cytochrome C oxidase, cco-1. In mammals, several factors are known for mitochondrial biogenesis and function. However, systematic screens for such factors in a whole animal model have not been performed. To identify novel loci involved in mitochondrial regulation, using ARD recovery as a tool we performed an RNAi screen monitoring expression of the mitochondrial marker pcco-1::gfp during ARD recovery. We identified presumed ancestral factors known to regulate mitochondrial function, including CREB, CREB binding protein, ATFS-1 and SKN-1/NFE2. More importantly we also found several novel mitochondrial regulators such as NFYB-1, a subunit of the NF-Y transcriptional complex binding the CCAAT motif. Consistent with a role in mitochondrial physiology, we observed that loss of NFYB-1 leads to mitochondrial fragmentation, reduced mitochondrial reporter expression, lower oxygen consumption and abolition of longevity triggered by reduced mitochondrial function by RNAi knockdown of cco-1 RNAi and mitochondrial mutant isp-1(qm150). Moreover, NFYB-1 loss also regulates mitochondrial to cytosolic stress response and expression of mitochondrial UPR factors ATFS-1 and DEV-1. Strikingly both proteomic and transcriptomics analysis indicates that NFYB-1 regulates a subset of endoplasmic reticulum associated genes. Taken together these findings suggest that NFYB-1 promotes mitochondrial gene expression, while suppressing ER stress response and functions a novel regulator of inter-organellar communication to maintain homeostasis and mitochondrial longevity.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-93746 | ||||||||
Date: | 26 February 2019 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen > MPI for Biology of Ageing | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 8 March 2018 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/9374 |
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