Neuronal exosomes transport a miRNA/RISC cargo to preserve germline stem cell integrity during energy stress
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract During periods of nutrient scarcity, many animals undergo germline quiescence to preserve reproductive capacity, and neurons are often necessary for this adaptation. We show here that starvation causes the release of neuronal miRNA/Argonaute-loaded exosomes following AMPK-regulated trafficking changes within serotonergic neurons. This neuron-to-germ line communication is independent of classical serotonergic neurotransmission, but instead relies on endosome-derived vesicles that carry a pro-quiescent miRNA cargo to modify germline gene expression. Using a miRNA activity sensor, we show that neuronally-expressed miRNAs can extinguish the expression of germline-mRNA targets in an exosome-dependent manner. Our findings demonstrate how an adaptive neuronal response can change gene expression at a distance by re-directing intracellular trafficking to release neuronal exosomes with specific miRNA cargos capable of tracking to their appropriate destinations. One Sentence Summary Neurons release miRNA Argonaute-containing exosomes to establish germline stem cell quiescence in response to energy stress.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".