Abstract
Dietary restriction usually suppresses biosynthesis but activates catabolic pathways in animals. However, the short-term starvation enhances biosynthetic activities and promotes ribosomal biogenesis in adult Caenorhabditis elegans. The mechanism underlying the processes remains largely unknown. Here, we find that the short-term starvation enhances the SL1 trans-splicing of translation-related genes in adult C. elegans by transcriptome analysis. The small nuclear RNA-activating protein complex (SNAPc) promotes SL RNA production and mediates starvation-induced trans-splicing. TOFU-5, a core factor in the upstream sequence transcription complex (USTC) essential for piRNA production, is also involved in the starvation-induced trans-splicing processes. Knocking down components of the SNAPc complex and tofu-5 extends worm survival under starvation conditions. Taken together, our study highlights the importance of SL trans-splicing in the nutrition response and reveals a mechanism of the survival regulation by food deprivation via SNAPc and TOFU-5.
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