Decline of Nucleotide Excision Repair Capacity in Aged Caenorhabditis elegans
We used gene expression profiling to address several specific questions that arose in a study of repair of ultraviolet C radiation in C elegans, as well as to generate hypotheses regarding the possible mechanism(s) of decreased DNA repair observed in old adults in that study. This analysis was performed in order to analyze gene expression in the strain (JK1107) and experimental conditions that we used for our DNA repair studies. The supplementary file GSE4766_Resolver_all_data.txt includes Resolver generated fold-changes and p values based on ratios built in Rosetta Resolver as described in the Rosetta Biosoftware Technical Note (Lee Weng, 2004), Data processing and analysis methods in the Rosetta Resolver system (http:
PQM-1 controls hypoxic survival via regulation of lipid metabolism.
Worms were exposed to 5 mM CoCl2 at the early day 1 of adulthood stage for 6 hr and 20 hr. Untreated worms were used as controls. Worms were collected, RNA isolated and hybridized on 4x44K C. elegans arrays (Agilent) at 60C overnight, as previously described 1). Three biological replicates were used. Significant differentially-expressed gene sets were identified using one or two-class SAM 2). 1) Shaw, W. M., Luo, S., Landis, J., Ashraf, J. & Murphy, C. T. The C. elegans TGF-beta Dauer pathway regulates longevity via insulin signaling. Curr Biol 17, 1635-1645, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.058 (2007). 2) Tusher, V. G., Tibshirani, R. & Chu, G. Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98, 5116-5121, doi:10.1073/pnas.091062498 (2001).