title: Diversification of fasting regulated transcription in a cluster of duplicated nuclear hormone receptors in C. elegans.
abstract: The genome of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes more than 280 nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs) in contrast to the 48 NHRs in humans and 18 NHRs in Drosophila. The majority of the C. elegans NHRs are categorized as supplementary nuclear receptors (supnrs) that evolved by successive duplications of a single ancestral gene. The evolutionary pressures that lead to the expansion of NHRs in nematodes, as well as the function of the majority of supnrs, are not known. Here, we have studied the expression of seven genes organized in a cluster on chromosome V: nhr-206, nhr-208, nhr-207, nhr-209, nhr-154, nhr-153 and nhr-136. Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR and analyses using transgenic lines carrying GFP fusion genes with their putative promoters revealed that all seven genes of this cluster are expressed and five have partially overlapping expression patterns including in the pharynx, intestine, certain neurons, the anal sphincter muscle, and male specific cells. Four genes in this cluster are conserved between C. elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae whereas three genes are present only in C. elegans, the apparent result of a relatively recent expansion. Interestingly, we find that a subset of the conserved and non-conserved genes in this cluster respond transcriptionally to fasting in tissue-specific patterns. Our results reveal the diversification of the temporal, spatial, and metabolic gene expression patterns coupled with evolutionary drift within supnr family members.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Inherited Metabolic Disorders, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jaroslav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vohanka
authors.forename: Katerina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Simecková
authors.forename: Eliska
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Machalová
authors.forename: Frantisek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Behenský
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: Zdenek
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kostrouch
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostrouchová
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D002875:Chromosomes; D005215:Fasting / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D020131:Genes, Duplicate; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000502:physiology; D049751:Genome, Helminth; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
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