Reduced insulin/IGF-1 signalling upregulates two anti-viral immune pathways, decreases viral load and increases survival under viral infection in C. elegans

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Reduced insulin/IGF-1 signalling (rIIS) improves survival across diverse taxa and there is a growing interest in its role in regulating immune function. Whilst rIIS can improve anti-bacterial resistance, the consequences for anti-viral immunity are yet to be systematically examined. Here, we show that rIIS in adult Caenorhabditis elegans increases the expression of key genes in two different anti-viral immunity pathways, whilst reducing viral load in old age, increasing survival and reducing rate-of-senescence under infection by naturally occurring positive-sense single-stranded RNA Orsay virus. We found that both drh-1 in the anti-viral RNA interference (RNAi) pathway and cde-1 in the terminal uridylation-based degradation of viral RNA pathway were upregulated in early adulthood under rIIS and increased anti-viral resistance was not associated with reproductive costs. Remarkably, rIIS increased anti-viral gene expression only in infected worms, potentially to curb the costs of constitutively upregulated immunity. RNA viruses are found across taxa from plants to mammals and we demonstrate a novel role for rIIS in regulating resistance to viral infection. We therefore highlight this evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway as a promising therapeutic target to improve anti-viral immunity.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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GeroScience - (2024) vom: 08. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Duxbury, Elizabeth M L [VerfasserIn]
Carlsson, Hanne [VerfasserIn]
Kimberley, Annabel [VerfasserIn]
Ridge, Yvonne [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Katie [VerfasserIn]
Maklakov, Alexei A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-viral immunity
Healthy aging
Insulin signalling
Journal Article
Orsay RNA virus
Rate-of-senescence

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Date Revised 08.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1007/s11357-024-01147-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370790227