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Public on Jul 31, 2024 |
| Title |
Nuclear Argonaute protein NRDE-3 switches small RNA binding partners during embryogenesis coincident with the formation of SIMR granules |
| Organism |
Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Experiment type |
Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing
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| Summary |
RNA interference (RNAi) is a conserved gene regulation mechanism that utilizes the Argonaute protein and their associated small RNAs to exert regulatory function on complementary transcripts. While the majority of germline-expressed RNAi pathway components reside in perinuclear germ granules, it is unknown whether and how RNAi pathways are spatially organized in other cell types. Here we find that the small RNA biogenesis machinery is spatially and temporally organized during embryogenesis. Specifically, the RNAi factor, SIMR-1, forms visible concentrates during mid-embryogenesis that contain an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, a poly-UG polymerase, and the unloaded nuclear Argonaute protein, NRDE-3. Further, we observe that many other RNAi factors form foci in embryonic cells distinct from SIMR granules, including the Argonaute protein CSR-1, underscoring a potential role for cytoplasmic concentrates of RNAi factors to promote gene regulation in embryos. Curiously, coincident with the appearance of the “SIMR granules”, the small RNAs bound to NRDE-3 switch from predominantly CSR-class 22G-RNAs to ERGO-dependent 22G-RNAs. Thus, our study defines two separable roles for NRDE-3, targeting germline-expressed genes during early embryogenesis and switching later in embryogenesis to repress recently duplicated genes and retrotransposons in somatic cells, highlighting the plasticity of Argonaute proteins and the need for more precise temporal characterization of Argonaute-small RNA interactions.
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| Overall design |
FLAG::NRDE-3 immunoprecipitation from whole C. elegans embryo extract followed by small RNA purification, library preparation, and sequencing
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| Contributor(s) |
Phillips CM, Chen S |
| Citation(s) |
39131395 |
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| Submission date |
Jul 26, 2024 |
| Last update date |
Sep 03, 2024 |
| Contact name |
Carolyn Marie Phillips |
| E-mail(s) |
cphil@usc.edu
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| Organization name |
University of Southern California
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| Department |
Biological Sciences
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| Lab |
Phillips
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| Street address |
1050 Childs Way, RRI 201
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| City |
Los Angeles |
| State/province |
CA |
| ZIP/Postal code |
90089 |
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USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL32326 |
NextSeq 2000 (Caenorhabditis elegans) |
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| Samples (40)
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA1140655 |
| Supplementary file |
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| GSE273239_RAW.tar |
62.9 Mb |
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SRA Run Selector |
| Raw data are available in SRA |
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