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Global transcriptional regulation of innate immunity by ATF-7 in C. elegans

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Fletcher, Marissa; Tillman, Erik J.; Butty, Vincent L.; Levine, Stuart S.; Kim, Dennis H.
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a genetically tractable animal host in which to study evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of innate immune signaling. We previously showed that the PMK-1 p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway regulates innate immunity of C. elegans through phosphorylation of the CREB/ATF bZIP transcription factor, ATF-7. Here, we have undertaken a genomic analysis of the transcriptional response of C. elegans to infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, combining genome-wide expression analysis by RNA-seq with ATF-7 chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-Seq). We observe that PMK-1-ATF-7 activity regulates a majority of all genes induced by pathogen infection, and observe ATF-7 occupancy in regulatory regions of pathogen-induced genes in a PMK-1-dependent manner. Moreover, functional analysis of a subset of these ATF-7-regulated pathogen-induced target genes supports a direct role for this transcriptional response in host defense. The genome-wide regulation through PMK-1– ATF-7 signaling reveals a striking level of control over the innate immune response to infection through a single transcriptional regulator.
Date issued
2019-02
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125216
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Journal
PLOS genetics
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Fletcher, Marissa et al. “Global transcriptional regulation of innate immunity by ATF-7 in C. elegans.” PLOS genetics 15 (2019): e1007830 © 2019 The Author(s)
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1553-7404
1553-7390

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