DNA damage in germ cells induces an innate immune response that triggers systemic stress resistance.
DNA damage in germ cells induces an innate immune response that triggers systemic stress resistance.
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DNA damage responses have been well characterized in their cell-autonomous checkpoint functions leading to cell cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis . In contrast, systemic responses to tissue-specific genome instability remain poorly understood. In adult C. elegans worms germ cells undergo mitotic and meiotic cell divisions while somatic tissues are entirely postmitotic. Consequently, DNA damage checkpoints function specifically in the germline , whereas somatic tissues in adult C. elegans are highly radio-resistant . Some DNA repair systems such as global-genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) remove lesions specifically in germ cells . Here we investigated how genome instability in germ cells affects somatic tissues in C. elegans. We show that exogenous and endogenous DNA damage in germ cells evokes elevated resistance to heat and oxidative stress. The somatic stress resistance is mediated by the ERK MAP kinase MPK-1 in germ cells that triggers the induction of putative secreted peptides associated with innate immunity. The innate immune response leads to activation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) in somatic tissues, which confers enhanced proteostasis and systemic stress resistance. We propose that elevated systemic stress resistance promotes endurance of somatic tissues to allow delay of progeny production when germ cells are genomically compromised.
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