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Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-49 acts in parallel with HIF-1 to promote hypoxia adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans

  1. Kelsie RS Doering
  2. Xuanjin Cheng
  3. Luke Milburn
  4. Ramesh Ratnappan
  5. Arjumand Ghazi
  6. Dana L Miller
  7. Stefan Taubert  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of British Columbia, Canada
  2. University of Washington, United States
  3. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67911
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  1. Kelsie RS Doering
  2. Xuanjin Cheng
  3. Luke Milburn
  4. Ramesh Ratnappan
  5. Arjumand Ghazi
  6. Dana L Miller
  7. Stefan Taubert
(2022)
Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-49 acts in parallel with HIF-1 to promote hypoxia adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans
eLife 11:e67911.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67911
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Abstract

Caenorhabditis elegans Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-49, an orthologue of mammalian Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor alpha (PPARα). We show that nhr-49 is required for animal survival in hypoxia and is synthetic lethal with hif-1 in this context, demonstrating that these factors act in parallel. RNA-seq analysis shows that in hypoxia nhr-49 regulates a set of genes that are hif-1-independent, including autophagy genes that promote hypoxia survival. We further show that Nuclear Hormone Receptor nhr-67 is a negative regulator and Homeodomain-interacting Protein Kinase hpk-1 is a positive regulator of the NHR-49 pathway. Together, our experiments define a new, essential hypoxia response pathway that acts in parallel with the well-known HIF-mediated hypoxia response.

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RNA-seq data have been deposited at NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) under the record GSE166788.All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and Supplementary Tables. Raw data points from each N are shown in figures where-ever possible. See transparent reporting form for details.

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  1. Kelsie RS Doering

    Graduate Program in Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  2. Xuanjin Cheng

    Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  3. Luke Milburn

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  4. Ramesh Ratnappan

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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  5. Arjumand Ghazi

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
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  6. Dana L Miller

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  7. Stefan Taubert

    Graduate Program in Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R56AG066682)

  • Arjumand Ghazi

BC Children's Hospital Foundation

  • Stefan Taubert

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2018-05133)

  • Stefan Taubert

National Institutes of Health (R01AG051659)

  • Arjumand Ghazi

Cancer Research Society (22727)

  • Stefan Taubert

BC Children's Hospital Foundation

  • Kelsie RS Doering

Canada Research Chairs

  • Stefan Taubert

National Institutes of Health (R01AG044378)

  • Dana L Miller

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

  • Kelsie RS Doering

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-153199)

  • Stefan Taubert

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Kelsie RS Doering
  2. Xuanjin Cheng
  3. Luke Milburn
  4. Ramesh Ratnappan
  5. Arjumand Ghazi
  6. Dana L Miller
  7. Stefan Taubert
(2022)
Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-49 acts in parallel with HIF-1 to promote hypoxia adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans
eLife 11:e67911.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67911

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