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Argonautes promote male fertility and provide a paternal memory of germline gene expression in C. elegans


ABSTRACT: During each life cycle germ cells preserve and pass on both genetic and epigenetic information. In C. elegans, the ALG-3/4 Argonaute (AGO) proteins and their small-RNA cofactors are expressed during male gametogenesis and promote male fertility. Here we show that the CSR-1 AGO functions with ALG-3/4 to positively regulate target genes required for spermiogenesis. Our findings suggest that ALG-3/4 functions during spermatogenesis to amplify a small-RNA signal that represents an epigenetic memory of male-specific gene expression, while CSR-1, which is abundant in mature sperm, transmits this memory to offspring. Surprisingly, in addition to small RNAs targeting male-specific genes, we show that males also harbor an extensive repertoire of CSR-1 small RNAs targeting oogenesis-specific mRNAs. Together these findings suggest that C. elegans sperm transmit not only the genome but also epigenetic binary signals in the form of Argonaute/small-RNA complexes that constitute a memory of which genes were active in preceding generations. Examine small RNA changes in WT and alg-3/4 mutant males cultured at 20M-BM-0C and 25M-BM-0C, as well as determine the small RNAs enriched in a FLAG::CSR-1 IP from male worms grown at 25M-BM-0C. mRNA sequencing was also performed to determine how transcripts targeted by small RNAs change in mutant background at 20M-BM-0C and 25M-BM-0C.

ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans

SUBMITTER: Craig Mello 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-49672 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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