Heat Stress Reduces the Susceptibility of Caenorhabditis elegans to Orsay Virus Infection

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been a versatile model for understanding the molecular responses to abiotic stress and pathogens. In particular, the response to heat stress and virus infection has been studied in detail. The Orsay virus (OrV) is a natural virus of C. elegans and infection leads to intracellular infection and proteostatic stress, which activates the intracellular pathogen response (IPR). IPR related gene expression is regulated by the genes pals-22 and pals-25, which also control thermotolerance and immunity against other natural pathogens. So far, we have a limited understanding of the molecular responses upon the combined exposure to heat stress and virus infection. We test the hypothesis that the response of C. elegans to OrV infection and heat stress are co-regulated and may affect each other. We conducted a combined heat-stress-virus infection assay and found that after applying heat stress, the susceptibility of C. elegans to OrV was decreased. This difference was found across different wild types of C. elegans. Transcriptome analysis revealed a list of potential candidate genes associated with heat stress and OrV infection. Subsequent mutant screens suggest that pals-22 provides a link between viral response and heat stress, leading to enhanced OrV tolerance of C. elegans after heat stress.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Genes - 12(2021), 8 vom: 28. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Yuqing [VerfasserIn]
Sterken, Mark G [VerfasserIn]
van Zwet, Koen [VerfasserIn]
van Sluijs, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Pijlman, Gorben P [VerfasserIn]
Kammenga, Jan E [VerfasserIn]

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C. elegans
Heat stress
Journal Article
Orsay virus
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.02.2022

Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/genes12081161

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329832433