Aladzsity István, Tóth Márton L, Sigmond Tímea, Szabó Emese, Bicsák Bertalan, Barna János, Regos Agnes, Orosz László, Kovács Attila L, Vellai Tibor
Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Genetics. 2007 Sep;177(1):655-60. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.075762.
Here we show that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans mutational inactivation of two autophagy genes unc-51/atg1 and bec-1/atg6/beclin1 results in small body size without affecting cell number. Furthermore, loss-of-function mutations in unc-51 and bec-1 suppress the giant phenotype of mutant animals with aberrant insulin-like growth factor-1 (insulin/IGF-1) or transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling. This function for unc-51 and bec-1 in cell size control and their interaction with these two growth modulatory pathways may represent a link between the hormonal and nutritional regulation of cell growth.
我们在此表明,在线虫秀丽隐杆线虫中,两个自噬基因unc-51/atg1和bec-1/atg6/beclin1的突变失活导致体型变小,但不影响细胞数量。此外,unc-51和bec-1的功能丧失突变抑制了具有异常胰岛素样生长因子-1(胰岛素/IGF-1)或转化生长因子-β(TGF-β)信号的突变动物的巨大表型。unc-51和bec-1在细胞大小控制中的这种功能以及它们与这两种生长调节途径的相互作用可能代表了细胞生长的激素调节和营养调节之间的联系。