RRC ID 76321
著者 Wang SY, Kim K, O'Brown ZK, Levan A, Dodson AE, Kennedy SG, Chernoff C, Greer EL.
タイトル Hypoxia induces transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of small RNAs.
ジャーナル Cell Rep
Abstract Animals sense and adapt to decreased oxygen availability, but whether and how hypoxia exposure in ancestors can elicit phenotypic consequences in normoxia-reared descendants are unclear. We show that hypoxia educes an intergenerational reduction in lipids and a transgenerational reduction in fertility in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The transmission of these epigenetic phenotypes is dependent on repressive histone-modifying enzymes and the argonaute HRDE-1. Feeding naive C. elegans small RNAs extracted from hypoxia-treated worms is sufficient to induce a fertility defect. Furthermore, the endogenous small interfering RNA F44E5.4/5 is upregulated intergenerationally in response to hypoxia, and soaking naive normoxia-reared C. elegans with F44E5.4/5 double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is sufficient to induce an intergenerational fertility defect. Finally, we demonstrate that labeled F44E5.4/5 dsRNA is itself transmitted from parents to children. Our results suggest that small RNAs respond to the environment and are sufficient to transmit non-genetic information from parents to their naive children.
巻・号 41(11)
ページ 111800
公開日 2022-12-13
DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111800
PII S2211-1247(22)01688-6
PMID 36516753
PMC PMC9847139
MeSH Animals Caenorhabditis elegans* / genetics Caenorhabditis elegans* / metabolism Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins* / genetics Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins* / metabolism Epigenesis, Genetic Hypoxia / genetics Inheritance Patterns RNA Interference RNA, Double-Stranded / genetics RNA, Small Interfering / genetics
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