期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 22, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189810
关键词
region-specific irradiation; microbeam; locomotion; swimming; autophagy; C; elegans
资金
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP15K11922, JP15K11921, JP18K18839, JP16K00545, JP19K12320]
High-dose radiation was found to significantly reduce locomotion ability in Caenorhabditis elegans, affecting both crawling and swimming behaviors in a dose-dependent manner. Recovery of swimming ability was observed after gamma-ray radiation exposure. Additionally, the induction of the autophagy-related gene lgg-1 was observed in response to radiation, with stronger fluorescence intensity in the anterior half of the body. Region-specific radiation with carbon-ion microbeams further supported the importance of the anterior half of the body in the locomotory response to radiation.
Radiation damages many cellular components and disrupts cellular functions, and was previously reported to impair locomotion in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the response to even higher doses is not clear. First, to investigate the effects of high-dose radiation on the locomotion of C. elegans, we investigated the dose range that reduces whole-body locomotion or leads to death. Irradiation was performed in the range of 0-6 kGy. In the crawling analysis, motility decreased after irradiation in a dose-dependent manner. Exposure to 6 kGy of radiation affected crawling on agar immediately and caused the complete loss of motility. Both gamma-rays and carbon-ion beams significantly reduced crawling motility at 3 kGy. Next, swimming in buffer was measured as a motility index to assess the response over time after irradiation and motility similarly decreased. However, swimming partially recovered 6 h after irradiation with 3 kGy of gamma-rays. To examine the possibility of a recovery mechanism, in situ GFP reporter assay of the autophagy-related gene lgg-1 was performed. The fluorescence intensity was stronger in the anterior half of the body 7 h after irradiation with 3 kGy of gamma-rays. GFP::LGG-1 induction was observed in the pharynx, neurons along the body, and the intestine. Furthermore, worms were exposed to region-specific radiation with carbon-ion microbeams and the trajectory of crawling was measured by image processing. Motility was lower after anterior-half body irradiation than after posterior-half body irradiation. This further supported that the anterior half of the body is important in the locomotory response to radiation.
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