SPELL - Nematode

Citation	Andralojc KM, Campbell AC, Kelly AL, Terrey M, Tanner PC, Gans IM, Senter-Zapata MJ, Khokhar ES, Updike DL. ELLI-1, a novel germline protein, modulates RNAi activity and P-granule accumulation in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet, 2017.
PubMed ID	28182654
Short Description	ELLI-1, a novel germline protein, modulates RNAi activity and P-granule accumulation in Caenorhabditis elegans. GEO Record: GSE82322 Platform: GPL21109 Download gene-centric, log2 transformed data: WBPaper00050743.ce.mr.csv
# of Conditions	8
Full Description	Germ cells contain non-membrane bound cytoplasmic organelles that help maintain germline integrity. In C. elegans they are called P granules; without them, the germline undergoes partial masculinization and aberrant differentiation. One key P-granule component is the Argonaute CSR-1, a small-RNA binding protein that antagonizes accumulation of sperm-specific transcripts in developing oocytes and fine-tunes expression of proteins critical to early embryogenesis. Loss of CSR-1 complex components results in a very specific, enlarged P-granule phenotype. In a forward screen to identify mutants with abnormal P granules, ten alleles were recovered with a csr-1 P-granule phenotype, eight of which contain mutations in known components of the CSR-1 complex (csr-1, ego-1, ekl-1, and drh-3). The remaining two alleles are in a novel gene now called elli-1 (enlarged germline granules). ELLI-1 is first expressed in primordial germ cells during mid-embryogenesis, and continues to be expressed in the adult germline. While ELLI-1 forms cytoplasmic aggregates, they occasionally dock, but do not co-localize with P granules. Instead, the majority of ELLI-1 aggregates accumulate in the shared germline cytoplasm. In elli-1 mutants, several genes that promote RNAi and P-granule accumulation are upregulated, and embryonic lethality, sterility, and RNAi resistance in a hypomorphic drh-3 allele is enhanced, suggesting that ELLI-1 functions with CSR-1 to modulate RNAi activity, P-granule accumulation, and post-transcriptional expression in the germline. Experimental Details: WBPaper00050743:elli-1(sam3)_rep1 WBPaper00050743:elli-1(sam3)_rep2 WBPaper00050743:elli-1(sam3)_rep3 WBPaper00050743:elli-1(sam3)_rep4 WBPaper00050743:control_rep1 WBPaper00050743:control_rep2 WBPaper00050743:control_rep3 WBPaper00050743:control_rep4.
Tags	Method: microarray, Species: Caenorhabditis elegans, Topic: RNA interference