cku-70;rrf-3

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Genetic mutants with cku-70, rrf-3 alterations

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Temperature °C
25
Lifespan (days)
15.5
Lifespan change (compared to wild type)
9.93%
Phenotype
Using rrf-a 3(pk1426) worms that show increased sensitivity to RNAi when compared with wild type, we observed a slight but significant increase (mean increase aprox 14%) in life span after cku-70(RNAi)
Lifespan comparisons
Double mutant cku-70(RNAi);rrf-3(pk1426) has a lifespan of 15.5 days, while single mutant rrf-3(pk1426) has a lifespan of 14.2 days and wild type has a lifespan of 14.1 days.
Type of interaction
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Partially known monotony. Positive epistasis
Citation
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McColl G et al., 2005, The C. elegans ortholog of mammalian Ku70, interacts with insulin-like signaling to modulate stress resistance and life span. FASEB J. 19(12):1716-8 16099946 Click here to select all mutants from this PubMed ID in the graph
Abstract
The mammalian Ku heterodimer has important roles in DNA double strand break repair, telomere maintenance, cell cycle checkpoint-arrest, tumor suppression, and cellular stress resistance. To investigate the evolutionarily conserved functions of Ku, we knocked down expression by RNA interference (RNAi) of Ku genes in C. elegans. We found that C. elegans Ku70 (CKU-70) is required for resistance to genotoxic stress, regulates cytotoxic stress responses, and influences aging. The latter effects are dependent on an IGF-1/insulin-like signaling pathway previously shown to affect life span. Reduction of CKU-70 activity amplifies the aging phenotype of long-lived insulin receptor daf-2 mutations in a daf-16-dependent manner. These observations support the view that organismal stress resistance determines life span and Ku70 modulates these effects.

Search genes: cku-70 rrf-3

Entrez ID
Symbol
GenAge
Wormbase ID

176546
cku-70
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WBGene00000519

Caenorhabditis KU

Locus: CELE_Y47D3A.4

Wormbase description: cku-70 encodes an ortholog of human XRCC6 (Ku70; OMIM:152690, antigen of systemic lupus erythematosus); CKU-70 is required for resistance to ionizing radiation (IR) in somatic tissues (such as motor neurons, vulva or uterus) and in endoreduplicating intestinal cells, but not in the germline; CKU-70 is also required for survival of dauer larvae subjected to IR, and for resistance of developing embryos to methyl methane sulfonate; CKU-70, unlike CKU-80, inhibits DAF-16-dependent thermotolerance, and slightly shortens normal lifespan; CKU-70 binds CKU-80 in yeast two-hybrid assays, and requires HIM-10 for fully effective DNA repair in somatic cells; by orthology, CKU-70 is expected to function (as a heterodimer with CKU-80) in nonhomologous end-joining of double-stranded breaks in DNA; mutant cku-70 late-stage embryos or dauer larvae are hypersensitive to radiation-induced DNA damage in somatic cells; after irradiation, cku-70 mutants tend to display various postembryonic phenotypes (such as slow growth, uncoordinated locomotion, impaired egg-laying, or vulval defects) that are enhanced by him-10 mutations, and that are thought to reflect missegregation of fragmented chromosomes; cku-70(RNAi) animals show a minor extension of lifespan in an rrf-3(pk1426) mutant background, independently of the presence or absence of either functional DAF-2 or germline cells, but a reduction of lifespan with a loss of DAF-16 activity.

Entrez ID
Symbol
GenAge
Wormbase ID

174315
rrf-3
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WBGene00004510

RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Family

Locus: CELE_F10B5.7

Wormbase description: rrf-3 encodes an RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) homolog that inhibits somatic RNAi, and thus promotes activity of repeated genes (e.g., multicopy transgenic arrays); the effect of RRF-3 on RNAi is opposite to that of RRF-1 (which stimulates somatic RNAi), which might arise from competition by RRF-3 with RRF-1 or EGO-1 in RNAi formation; rrf-3(allele) or rrf-3(allele2) mutants are hypersensitive to somatic RNAi, and conversely suppress the activity of an integrated rol6 (su1006) transgene.

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