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Microarray_Study.WBPaper00042128.ce.mrDB_infoDatabaseGEOGSE40127
TitleGEI-8, a homologue of vertebrate nuclear receptor corepressor NCoR/SMRT, regulates development and neuronal functions in C. elegans.
DescriptionNCoR and SMRT are two paralogous vertebrate proteins that function as corepressors with unliganded nuclear receptors. Although C. elegans has a large number of nuclear receptors, orthologues of the corepressors NCoR and SMRT have not unambiguously been identified in Drosophila or C. elegans. Here, we identify GEI-8 as the closest homologue of NCoR and SMRT in C. elegans and demonstrate that GEI-8 is expressed as at least two isoforms throughout development in multiple tissues, including neurons, muscle and intestinal cells. We demonstrate that a homozygous deletion within the gei-8 coding region, which is predicted to encode a truncated protein lacking the predicted NR domain, results in severe mutant phenotypes with developmental defects, slow movement and growth, arrested gonadogenesis and defects in cholinergic neurotransmission. Whole genome expression analysis by microarrays identified sets of de-regulated genes consistent with both the observed mutant phenotypes and a role of GEI-8 in regulating transcription. Interestingly, the upregulated transcripts included a predicted mitochondrial sulfide:quinine reductase encoded by Y9C9A.16. This locus also contains non-coding, 21-U RNAs of the piRNA. Inhibition of the expression of the region coding for 21-U RNAs leads to irregular gonadogenesis in the homozygous gei-8 mutants, but not in an otherwise wild-type background, suggesting that GEI-8 may function in concert with the 21-U RNAs to regulate gonadogenesis. Our results confirm that GEI-8 is the orthologue of the vertebrate NCoR/SMRT corepressors and demonstrate important roles for this putative transcriptional corepressor in development and neuronal function.
CategoryWT vs. mutant
Microarray_experimentWBPaper00042128:N2_rep1
WBPaper00042128:gei-8(ok1671)_rep1
WBPaper00042128:N2_rep2
WBPaper00042128:gei-8(ok1671)_rep2
WBPaper00042128:N2_rep4
WBPaper00042128:gei-8(ok1671)_rep4
Species_in_analysisCaenorhabditis elegans
ReferenceWBPaper00042128