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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
卷 19, 期 11, 页码 1847-1855出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2012.69
关键词
C. elegans; ATM; DNA damage response (DDR) signaling; DNA repair; soma; germline
资金
- NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
- AIRC (Association Italian per la Ricerca sul Cancro), European Community's 7th Framework Programme (FP7) [202230]
- 'GENINCA', HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program), Cariplo Foundation [2009.2543]
- EMBO Young Investigator Program, Telethon
- progetto ricerca finalizzata [RF-IRE-2007-672847]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Ernst Hadorn Foundation
- Jospeh Steiner Foundation
The germline of Caenorhabditis elegans is a well-established model for DNA damage response (DDR) studies. However, the molecular basis of the observed cell death resistance in the soma of these animals remains unknown. We established a set of techniques to study ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage generation and DDR activation in a whole intact worm. Our single-cell analyses reveal that, although germline and somatic cells show similar levels of inflicted DNA damage, somatic cells, differently from germline cells, do not activate the crucial apical DDR kinase ataxia-telengiectasia mutated (ATM). We also show that DDR signaling proteins are undetectable in all somatic cells and this is due to transcriptional repression. However, DNA repair genes are expressed and somatic cells retain the ability to efficiently repair DNA damage. Finally, we demonstrate that germline cells, when induced to transdifferentiate into somatic cells within the gonad, lose the ability to activate ATM. Overall, these observations provide a molecular mechanism for the known, but hitherto unexplained, resistance to DNA damage-induced cell death in C. elegans somatic cells. We propose that the observed lack of signaling and cell death but retention of DNA repair functions in the soma is a Caenorhabditis-specific evolutionary-selected strategy to cope with its lack of adult somatic stem cell pools and regenerative capacity. Cell Death and Differentiation (2012) 19, 1847-1855; doi:10.1038/cdd.2012.69; published online 15 June 2012
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