Tina Pekec, Jarosław Lewandowski, Alicja A Komur, Daria Sobańska, Yanwu Guo, Karolina Świtońska-Kurkowska, Jędrzej M Małecki, Abhishek Anil Dubey, Wojciech Pokrzywa, Marcin Frankowski, Maciej Figiel, Rafal Ciosk
How animals rewire cellular programs to survive cold is a fascinating problem with potential biomedical implications, ranging from emergency medicine to space travel. Studying a hibernation-like response in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, we uncovered a regulatory axis that enhances the natural resistance of nematodes to severe cold. This axis involves conserved transcription factors, DAF-16/FoxO and PQM-1, which jointly promote cold survival by upregulating FTN-1, a protein related to mammalian ferritin heavy chain (FTH1)...
August 19, 2022: Nature Communications