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Genetics, Vol. 157, 639-654, February 2001, Copyright © 2001

Conservation of glp-1 Regulation and Function in Nematodes

David Rudela and Judith Kimblea,b,c,d
a Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
b Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
c Department of Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
d Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Corresponding author: Judith Kimble, HHMI/Department of Biochemistry, 433 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706-1544., jekimble{at}facstaff.wisc.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: R. K. HERMAN

The Caenorhabditis elegans (Ce) glp-1 gene encodes a Notch-like receptor. We have cloned glp-1 from C. briggsae (Cb) and C. remanei (Cr), two Caenorhabditis species that have diverged from C. elegans by roughly 20–40 million years. By sequence analysis, we find that the Cb-GLP-1 and Cr-GLP-1 proteins have retained the same motif architecture as Ce-GLP-1, including number of domains. In addition, two regions (CC-linker and regions flanking the ANK repeats) are as highly conserved as regions previously recognized as essential for signaling (e.g., ANK repeats). Phylogenetic analysis of glp-1 sequences suggests a C. briggsae/C. remanei clade with C. elegans as a sister taxon. Using RNAi to test biological functions, we find that Ce-glp-1, Cb-glp-1, and Cr-glp-1 are all required for proliferation of germline stem cells and for specifying blastomere fates in the embryo. In addition, certain biological roles of Cb-glp-1, e.g., in the vulva, have diverged from those of Ce-glp-1 and Cr-glp-1, suggesting a change in either regulation or function of the Cb-glp-1 gene during evolution. Finally, the regulation of glp-1 mRNA, previously analyzed for Ce-glp-1, is conserved in Cb-glp-1, and we identify conserved 3' UTR sequences that may serve as regulatory elements.




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