Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 144, Issue 16, Pages 2896-2906Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.147660
Keywords
GLP-1/Notch; SMAD; DAF-3; C. elegans; Sno-Ski
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM102254, R01GM061706, R15GM111094]
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The developmental accumulation of proliferative germ cells in the C. elegans hermaphrodite is sensitive to the organismal environment. Previously, we found that the TGF beta signaling pathway links the environment and proliferative germ cell accumulation. Neuronal DAF-7/TGF beta causes a DAF-1/TGF beta R signaling cascade in the gonadal distal tip cell (DTC), the germline stem cell niche, where it negatively regulates a DAF-3 SMAD and DAF-5 Sno-Ski. LAG-2, a founding DSL ligand family member, is produced in the DTC and activates the GLP-1/Notch receptor on adjacent germ cells to maintain germline stem cell fate. Here, we show that DAF-7/TGF beta signaling promotes expression of lag-2 in the DTC in a daf-3-dependent manner. Using ChIP and one-hybrid assays, we find evidence for direct interaction between DAF-3 and the lag-2 promoter. We further identify a 25 bp DAF-3 binding element required for the DTC lag-2 reporter response to the environment and to DAF-7/TGF beta signaling. Our results implicate DAF-3 repressor complex activity as a key molecular mechanism whereby the environment influences DSL ligand expression in the niche to modulate developmental expansion of the germline stem cell pool.
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