Although the complete removal of miRNA functions causes embryonic lethality or infertility in worms, a partial disruption of overall miRNA functions by mutating either ain-1 or ain-2 provides an effective way to investigate miRNA functions (16, 17). However, we found that the reporter transgene with the lin-42 3′UTR was significantly repressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the mir-71(lf) worms (Fig. 4 H and I). This is consistent with hbl-1 being one of the downstream targets of miR-71, although this modest effect alone is not expected to account for the vulval developmental phenotype in mir-71 mutant. In starved L1 worms, we detected only a slight increase in the mRNA level of hbl-1 in mir-71 mutants compared with that in wild type (∼10%), which may not be biologically significant. In contrast, the mir-71(lf) mutant worms recovering on hbl-1(RNAi) displayed precocious VPC divisions similar to that seen in wild type (Fig. 4E).

miR-71 Regulates the Timing of Vulval Cell Division in Animals Recovering from L1 Diapause.

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• We used a dual-color 3′UTR reporter system (18) to test the computational, prediction-based hypothesis that the 3′UTRs of age-1 and unc-31 are directly regulated by miR-71 (Fig. 3B and Materials and Methods).
• MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are well known for their functions in controlling developmental timing in the nematode (5, 6).
• The data for 3′UTR expression and for VPC timing were analyzed using χ2 test.
• In contrast, the mir-71(lf) mutant worms recovering on hbl-1(RNAi) displayed precocious VPC divisions similar to that seen in wild type (Fig. 4E).
• (F) Fluorescence and DIC images showing that an hbl-1 3′UTR reporter was repressed in mir-71(+) worms and slightly derepressed in mir-71(lf) mutants.

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Elegans Genetic Center (reference 257) and an N2 strain from the laboratory stock, respectively. Wild-type strains A and B are an N2 strain recently obtained from the C. (A) Survival rate curves of wild-type and mutant strains, as indicated. This is consistent with the previous reports that AIN-1 and AIN-2 are functional homologs with overlapping biochemical roles (16, 17). The roles of InsRs have also been implicated in arresting the cell cycle in germ cells and a portion of somatic cells during L1 diapause (2, 4). Contributed new reagents/analytic tools; X.Z., R.Z., and M.H.
{A recent study showed that the expression of miR-71 was significantly increased relative to other miRNAs in starved L1 worms (15). However, miR-71 does not appear to regulate all postembryonic development during L1 diapause recovery. Unlike classical heterochronic miRNAs such as lin-4 and let-7, the role of miR-71 in vulval cell division is essential in animals recovering from starvation-induced L1 diapause, but not in animals hatched on plates with food. As pointed out above, multiple miRNAs in addition to miR-71 and the let-7 family miRNAs have roles in L1 diapause, and they may regulate the expression of many diverse targets that may include, but are not limited to, factors involved in UNC-31–InsR-signaling activities.}