SID-2 is a Conserved Extracellular Vesicle Protein That is Not Associated with Environmental RNAi in Parasitic Nematodes

Overview

Journal Open Biol

Specialties Biology
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2024 Nov 6

PMID 39501794

Authors

Frances Blow

Kate Jeffrey

Franklin Wang-Ngai Chow

Inna A Nikonorova

Maureen M Barr

Atlanta G Cook

Bram Prevo

Dhanya K Cheerambathur

Amy H Buck

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Abstract

In the free-living nematode the transmembrane protein SID-2 imports double-stranded RNA into intestinal cells to trigger systemic RNA interference (RNAi), allowing organisms to sense and respond to environmental cues such as the presence of pathogens. This process, known as environmental RNAi, has not been observed in the most closely related parasites that are also within clade V. Previous sequence-based searches failed to identify orthologues in available clade V parasite genomes. In this study, we identified orthologues in these parasites using genome synteny and protein structure-based comparison, following identification of a SID-2 orthologue in extracellular vesicles from the murine intestinal parasitic nematode . Expression of GFP-tagged SID-2 in showed similar localization to the intestinal apical membrane as seen for GFP-tagged SID-2, and further showed mobility in intestinal cells in vesicle-like structures. We tested the capacity of SID-2 to functionally complement environmental RNAi in a SID-2 null mutant and show that SID-2 does not rescue the phenotype in this context. Our work identifies SID-2 as a highly abundant EV protein whose ancestral function may be unrelated to environmental RNAi, and rather highlights an association with extracellular vesicles in nematodes.

Citing Articles

SID-2 is a conserved extracellular vesicle protein that is not associated with environmental RNAi in parasitic nematodes.

Blow F, Jeffrey K, Chow F, Nikonorova I, Barr M, Cook A Open Biol. 2024; 14(11):240190.

PMID: 39501794 PMC: 11538922. DOI: 10.1098/rsob.240190.

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