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Identification of BiP as a temperature sensor mediating temperature-induced germline sex reversal


ABSTRACT: Besides regulation by karyotype, sex determination is also modulated by environmental cues like temperature, but the involving temperature-transduction mechanism remains elusive. Moreover, while sex determination was traditionally seen as dictated exclusively by either karyotype or temperature, recent observations suggest these factors can co-regulate sex, posing a mechanistic mystery. Here, we discovered that certain wild-isolated and mutant C. elegans strains displayed genotypic-germline-sex-determination (GGSD) but with a temperature override. The ER chaperone, BiP, transduces temperature into germline-sex-governing signal and thus enables the co-existence of GGSD and temperature-dependent-germline-sex-determination (TGSD). Mechanistically, BiP availability decreases in response to elevated temperatures through detecting increased ER-protein-folding burden, which promotes male-germline-fate through ERAD-mediated downregulation of the oocyte-fate driving factor, TRA-2. Remarkably, a switch between GGSD and TGSD can be induced by manipulating this newly-discovered process. Functionally, TGSD facilitates C. elegans hermaphrodites in maintaining brood size at warmer temperatures. Moreover, BiP also acts in germline-sex-determination in a dioecious nematode. Collectively, our findings identify thermosensitive BiP as a conserved temperature sensor in TGSD and provide mechanistic insights into the fascinating transition of GGSD and TGSD.

SUBMITTER: Dr. Hongyun Tang 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-10_1038-S44318-024-00197-Z | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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