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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 1473-1483Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.01-12-0594
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM048435, GM48435] Funding Source: Medline
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Some metazoans have evolved the capacity to survive severe oxygen deprivation. The nematode, Caenorliabditis elegans, exposed to anoxia (0 kPa, 0% 02) enters into a recoverable state of suspended animation during all stages of the life cycle. That is, all microscopically observable movement ceases including cell division, developmental progression, feeding, and motility. To understand suspended animation, we compared oxygen-deprived embryos to nontreated embryos in both wild-type and hif-1 mutants. We found that hif-1 mutants survive anoxia, suggesting that the mechanism's for anoxia survival are different from those required for hypoxia. Examination of wild-type embryos exposed to anoxia show that blastomeres arrest in interphase, prophase, metaphase, and telophase but not anaphase. Analysis of the energetic state of anoxic embryos indicated a reversible depression in the ATP to ADP ratio. Given that a decrease in ATP concentrations likely affects a variety of cellular processes, including signal transduction, we compared the phosphorylation state of several proteins in anoxic embryos and normoxic embryos. We found that the phosphorylation state of histone H3 and cell cycle-regulated proteins recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were not detectable in anoxic embryos. Thus, dephosphorylation of specific proteins correlate with the establishment and/or maintenance of a state of anoxia-induced suspended animation.
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