Box C/D small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins regulate mitochondrial surveillance and innate immunity

dc.citation.articleNumbere1010103
dc.citation.issueNumber3
dc.citation.journalTitlePLOS Genetics
dc.citation.volumeNumber18
dc.contributor.authorTjahjono, Elissa
dc.contributor.authorRevtovich, Alexey V.
dc.contributor.authorKirienko, Natalia V.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T14:29:07Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T14:29:07Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMonitoring mitochondrial function is crucial for organismal survival. This task is performed by mitochondrial surveillance or quality control pathways, which are activated by signals originating from mitochondria and relayed to the nucleus (retrograde response) to start transcription of protective genes. In Caenorhabditis elegans, several systems are known to play this role, including the UPRmt, MAPKmt, and the ESRE pathways. These pathways are highly conserved and their loss compromises survival following mitochondrial stress. In this study, we found a novel interaction between the box C/D snoRNA core proteins (snoRNPs) and mitochondrial surveillance and innate immune pathways. We showed that box C/D, but not box H/ACA, snoRNPs are required for the full function of UPRmt and ESRE upon stress. The loss of box C/D snoRNPs reduced mitochondrial mass, mitochondrial membrane potential, and oxygen consumption rate, indicating overall degradation of mitochondrial function. Concomitantly, the loss of C/D snoRNPs increased immune response and reduced host intestinal colonization by infectious bacteria, improving host resistance to pathogenesis. Our data may indicate a model wherein box C/D snoRNP machinery regulates a “switch” of the cell’s activity between mitochondrial surveillance and innate immune activation. Understanding this mechanism is likely to be important for understanding multifactorial processes, including responses to infection and aging.
dc.identifier.citationTjahjono, Elissa, Revtovich, Alexey V. and Kirienko, Natalia V.. "Box C/D small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins regulate mitochondrial surveillance and innate immunity." <i>PLOS Genetics,</i> 18, no. 3 (2022) Public Library of Science: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010103.
dc.identifier.digitaljournal-pgen-1010103
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010103
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/112189
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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dc.titleBox C/D small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins regulate mitochondrial surveillance and innate immunity
dc.typeJournal article
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