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ArticleCell reports2014

Physiological roles for mafr-1 in reproduction and lipid homeostasis.

Akshat Khanna, Deborah L Johnson, Sean P Curran

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Article in Cell reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. RNA Polymerase III, Ageing and Longevity.Frontiers in genetics · 2021
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  12. Redirection of SKN-1 abates the negative metabolic outcomes of a perceived pathogen infection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  15. Sphingosine Kinase Regulates Neuropeptide Secretion During the Oxidative Stress-Response Through Intertissue Signaling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  17. Maf1 phenotypes and cell physiology.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Gene regulatory mechanisms · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Akshat KhannaLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Deborah L JohnsonDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Sean P CurranLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: spcurran@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Aric L Daul, Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
Novel targets that are deregulated by loss of PTENR01CA108614 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI JOHNSON, DEBORAH L. · 2006 to 2016
$2.7M
Novel roles for Maf1 as a central regulator of lipid homeostasisR01GM109028 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CURRAN, SEAN P · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of lifespan regulationR00AG032308 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CURRAN, SEAN P · 2011 to 2013
$746k
Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of lifespan regulationK99AG032308 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CURRAN, SEAN P · 2009 to 2010
$197k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA108614NIA NIH HHS AG032308NIA NIH HHS K99 AG032308NIA NIH HHS R00 AG032308NIGMS NIH HHS GM109028NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109028NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maf1 is a conserved repressor of RNA polymerase (Pol) III transcription; however, its physiological role in the context of a multicellular organism is not well understood. Here, we show that C. elegans MAFR-1 is functionally orthologous to human Maf1, represses the expression of both RNA Pol III and Pol II transcripts, and mediates organismal fecundity and lipid homeostasis. MAFR-1 impacts lipid transport by modulating intestinal expression of the vitellogenin family of proteins, resulting in cell-nonautonomous defects in the developing reproductive system. MAFR-1 levels inversely correlate with stored intestinal lipids, in part by influencing the expression of the lipogenesis enzymes fasn-1/FASN and pod-2/ACC1. Animals fed a high carbohydrate diet exhibit reduced mafr-1 expression and mutations in the insulin signaling pathway genes daf-18/PTEN and daf-16/FoxO abrogate the lipid storage defects associated with deregulated mafr-1 expression. Our results reveal physiological roles for mafr-1 in regulating organismal lipid homeostasis, which ensure reproductive success.

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FertilityLipid MetabolismAcetyltransferasesAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsFatty Acid Synthase, Type IHomeostasisIntestinal MucosaRepressor ProteinsRNA Polymerase IRNA Polymerase IIIUrogenital SystemVitellogeninsAcetyltransferasesaminoglycoside N1-acetyltransferaseCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsFatty Acid Synthase, Type IMAFR-1 protein, C elegansRepressor ProteinsRNA Polymerase IRNA Polymerase IIIVitellogenins

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PMID25497095
PMCPMC4391630
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