Reference : Defective responses to oxidative stress in protein l-isoaspartyl repair-deficient Cae...
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Life sciences : Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/13757
Defective responses to oxidative stress in protein l-isoaspartyl repair-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans
English
Khare, Shilpi [> >]
Gomez, Tara [> >]
Linster, Carole mailto [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) > >]
Clarke, Steven G. [> >]
Oct-2009
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
Elsevier Science Ireland
130
10
670-80
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
International
0047-6374
Limerick
Ireland
[en] We have shown that Caenorhabditis elegans lacking the PCM-1 protein repair l-isoaspartyl methyltransferase are more sensitive to oxidative stress than wild-type nematodes. Exposure to the redox-cycling quinone juglone upon exit from dauer diapause results in defective egg-laying (Egl phenotype) in the pcm-1 mutants only. Treatment with paraquat, a redox-cycling dipyridyl, causes a more severe developmental delay at the second larval stage in pcm-1 mutants than in wild-type nematodes. Finally, exposure to homocysteine and homocysteine thiolactone, molecules that can induce oxidative stress via distinct mechanisms, results in a more pronounced delay in development at the first larval stage in pcm-1 mutants than in wild-type animals. Homocysteine treatment also induced the Egl phenotype in mutant but not wild-type nematodes. All of the effects of these agents were reversed upon addition of vitamin C, indicating that the developmental delay and egg-laying defects result from oxidative stress. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that a mutation in the gene encoding the insulin-like receptor DAF-2 suppresses the Egl phenotype in pcm-1 mutants treated with juglone. Our results support a role of PCM-1 in the cellular responses mediated by the DAF-2 insulin-like signaling pathway in C. elegans for optimal protection against oxidative stress.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/13757
10.1016/j.mad.2009.08.002

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