Contested Claims
Evidence pair

WBbt:0003960 vs clear

Anatomy·PhenotypeAnimals appear unusually transparent when compared to control.

Evidence summary

65 claims between these entities

61Supports
3Refutes
1Uncertain

Refuting evidence (3)

refutespositively regulates52% conf.

Although both compounds do not induce in vitro and in vivo gene mutations in either bacterial or mammalian cells, there is no concrete evidence of a clear clastogenic effect exerted both in vitro and in vivo in mammalian cells.

New ventures in the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of macrocyclic lactones, abamectin and ivermectin.PMID:20389039(2010)
refutesprevents52% conf.

In summary, although reslizumab was able to blunt peripheral eosinophilia post-DEC treatment in subjects with loiasis and had no effect on microfilarial clearance, the reduction in AEC appeared to have been insufficient to prevent post-treatment AEs.

A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Pilot Study of Single-dose Humanized Anti-IL5 Antibody (Reslizumab) for the Reduction of Eosinophilia Following Diethylcarbamazine Treatment of Loa loa Infection.PMID:32910141(2021)
refutescauses52% conf.

We tested these predictions by carrying out LiNMC exposures, and found these did not significantly impact the redox state, steady-state ATP levels, mitochondrial:nuclear DNA ratio, or oxygen consumption in worms exposed developmentally to amounts of LiNMC that caused mild growth inhibition.

Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide particles cause developmental neurotoxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:41031203(2025)

Supporting evidence (61)

supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Artesunate induced apoptosis predominantly through the non-caspase mediated pathway by primarily targeting mitochondria and causing outer mitochondrial membrane permeabilization that led to cytosolic and subsequent nuclear translocation of mitochondrial proteins apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) and endonuclease G (EndoG).

Artesunate overcomes drug resistance in multiple myeloma by inducing mitochondrial stress and non-caspase apoptosis.PMID:24948357(2014)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Antimalarial immunity correlates with fast artemisinin-induced parasite clearance and low pitting rates.

Plasmodium falciparum clearance is rapid and pitting independent in immune Malian children treated with artesunate for malaria.PMID:25183768(2015)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Among them are some "truly" re-purposed drugs, which have different targets in ALL as compared to other diseases: cannabidiol, which targets mitochondria and causes the mitochondrial permeability transition-driven necrosis, tamoxifen, which induces autophagy and cell death, and reverts GC resistance through the mechanisms independent of nuclear estrogen receptors ("off-target effects"), antibiotic tigecycline, which inhibits mitochondrial respiration, causing energy crisis and cell death, and some anthelmintic drugs.

Overcoming Glucocorticoid Resistance in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Repurposed Drugs Can Improve the Protocol.PMID:33777761(2021)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Artesunate significantly reduced the mortality of caecal ligation and puncture (CLP)-induced sepsis immunosuppression mice challenged with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and enhanced pro-inflammatory cytokine release and bacterial clearance to reverse sepsis-induced immunosuppression in vivo and in vitro.

Artesunate interacts with the vitamin D receptor to reverse sepsis-induced immunosuppression in a mouse model via enhancing autophagy.PMID:32520399(2020)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Vdr, Atg16l1 and NF-κB p65 were modified to investigate artesunate 's effect on pro-inflammatory cytokines release, bacterial clearance and autophagy activities in sepsis-induced immunosuppression.

Artesunate interacts with the vitamin D receptor to reverse sepsis-induced immunosuppression in a mouse model via enhancing autophagy.PMID:32520399(2020)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Niclosamide is thought to activate AMPK by increasing AMP/ATP ratio through mitochondrial uncoupling, but details of its action remain unclear.

Niclosamide activates the AMP-activated protein kinase complex containing the β2 subunit independently of AMP.PMID:32993962(2020)
supportscauses52% conf.

However, whether these mitochondrial adaptations are the cause or consequence of tissue dysfunction remains unclear.

Mitochondrial uncoupling has no effect on microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes.PMID:30696927(2019)
supportsregulates52% conf.

However, the precise mechanism by which CISD1 modulates mitochondrial Fe2 + remains unclear.

The roles and mechanisms of CDGSH iron-sulfur domain 1 in kainic acid-induced mitochondrial iron overload, dysfunction and neuronal damage.PMID:40280034(2025)
supportsnegatively regulates52% conf.

Conclusion: In conclusion, our study demonstrated that the antimalarial drug ART can inhibit nuclear localization of SREBP2, downregulate IPP and GPX4, and eventually trigger ferroptosis in myeloma cells.

Artesunate induces ferroptosis by inhibiting the nuclear localization of SREBP2 in myeloma cells.PMID:37859702(2023)
supportsregulates52% conf.

SREBP2 has been reported to be regulated by the antimalarial drug artesunate (ART) through alteration of its nuclear localization and has been shown to inhibit ferroptosis in other tumours.

Artesunate induces ferroptosis by inhibiting the nuclear localization of SREBP2 in myeloma cells.PMID:37859702(2023)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Feeding or field trials have clearly demonstrated that dosing with a few hundred thousand spores per kilogram of live BW not only reduced the number of infective larvae but also increased the BW of the lambs compared with controls not given fungus.

Biological control of nematode parasites in sheep.PMID:16582084(2006)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Mitochondrial structure and function are controlled by genes in the nuclear DNA and those in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).

The Mitoscriptome in Aging and Disease.PMID:21532982(2011)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Accordingly, we observed that inhibition of miR-15b, in a SIRT4-dependent manner, increased generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species, decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, and modulated mRNA levels of nuclear encoded mitochondrial genes and components of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP).

MicroRNA-15b regulates mitochondrial ROS production and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype through sirtuin 4/SIRT4.PMID:26959556(2016)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Overall the results reveal that mitochondrial-nuclear genetic interactions play important roles in modulating Drosophila lifespan and these epistatic interactions are further modified by diet.

G×G×E for lifespan in Drosophila: mitochondrial, nuclear, and dietary interactions that modify longevity.PMID:24832080(2014)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

The mitochondrial stress response activated by a potentially damaging stimulus requires a coordinated dialogue with the cellular nucleus, known as mitonuclear communication.

Mitohormesis, an Antiaging Paradigm.PMID:30072093(2018)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Brain ATP levels were significantly reduced at an age of 18 months while mitochondria respiration was already reduced in middle-aged mice which is in accordance with the monitored impairments in cognitive tests. mRNA expression of genes involved in mitochondrial biogenesis (cAMP response element-binding protein 1 (creb-1), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC1-α), nuclear respiratory factor-1 (Nrf-1), mitochondrial transcription factor A (Tfam), growth-associated protein 43 (GAP43), and synaptophysin 1 (SYP1)) and the antioxidative defense system (catalase (Cat) and superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2)) was measured and showed significantly decreased expression patterns in the brain starting at an age of 18 months.

Cerebral Mitochondrial Function and Cognitive Performance during Aging: A Longitudinal Study in NMRI Mice.PMID:32377297(2020)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

The retrograde response, which signals mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in changes in nuclear gene expression, extends yeast life span and is induced during normal aging.

Yeast longevity and aging--the mitochondrial connection.PMID:15621203(2005)
supportscauses52% conf.

Although mitochondrial reactive oxygen species have been proposed as one of the causes of aging, their role in cardiac aging remains unclear.

Overexpression of catalase targeted to mitochondria attenuates murine cardiac aging.PMID:19451351(2009)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

NF-κB shows more sophisticated functions when compared to RTG genes including participation in immune responses and induction of apoptosis under high levels of ROS-induced mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage.

Comparing the yeast retrograde response and NF-κB stress responses: implications for aging.PMID:20961379(2010)
supportscauses52% conf.

However, as barcoding sequences were restricted to two mitochondrial loci (cox1 and 12S rRNA), the haplotype delineation proposed herein should be confirmed by the characterization of other nuclear loci also to overcome potential limitations caused by the heteroplasmy phenomenon within the mitogenome of VBHs.

Genetic and geographical delineation of zoonotic vector-borne helminths of canids.PMID:35462560(2022)
supportsprevents52% conf.

Despite their importance in preventing filarial diseases, the way in which the MLs work against these parasites is unclear.

How do the macrocyclic lactones kill filarial nematode larvae?PMID:27279086(2016)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

These live, exposed filarial worms stimulate development of innate, cellular and humoral immune responses that when properly stimulated, are capable of clearing all larvae or microfilariae present in the host, regardless of their individual sensitivity to MLs.

Examining the role of macrolides and host immunity in combatting filarial parasites.PMID:28410595(2017)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Since diethylcarbamazine at the dosages used to treat filarial infections has little direct toxicity, most of the post-treatment reactions (termed Mazzotti reactions in onchocerciasis) result from the immunological inflammatory mechanisms activated in the process of clearing and killing the skin-swelling or blood-borne microfilariae.

Description, mechanisms and control of reactions to treatment in the human filariases.PMID:3297558(1987)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Under in vivo conditions, the rapid microfilarial clearance induced by IVM treatment is proposed to result from suppression of the ability of the parasite to secrete proteins that enable evasion of the host immune system.

Ivermectin disrupts the function of the excretory-secretory apparatus in microfilariae of Brugia malayi.PMID:21041637(2010)
supportsrequired for52% conf.

To optimize patients' management, it is now pivotal to ascertain the interval between treatment and macrofilarial death and therefore whether re-treatments are required for complete clearance of parasites.

Laboratory Parameters after Treatment for Loa loa and Mansonella perstans: The Experience of a Single Referral Center for Tropical Diseases in a Non-Endemic Area.PMID:30693861(2019)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in regulating various biological processes; however, their roles in regulating the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are still unclear.

A circular RNA circ_0000115 in response to graphene oxide in nematodes.PMID:35519596(2019)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Having identified two recombinant filarial proteins (Ov27 and OvD5B) that induced patient peripheral blood mononuclear cells to produce antigen-specific IgG4/IgE antibodies in vitro, we assessed the role these filarial antigens play in inducing antigen-specific isotype switching (gamma 4 and epsilon) in the absence of T cells.

Differential regulation of antigen-specific IgG4 and IgE antibodies in response to recombinant filarial proteins.PMID:8982768(1996)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

When introduced to nonnative mosquito hosts, Wolbachia induce resistance to a number of human pathogens, including dengue virus (DENV), Plasmodium, and filarial nematodes, but the molecular mechanism involved is unclear.

Wolbachia induces reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent activation of the Toll pathway to control dengue virus in the mosquito Aedes aegypti.PMID:22123956(2012)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

One hallmark of inflammation resolution is the activation of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) that enhance bacterial clearance and promote tissue repair.

Staphylococcus aureus-Derived α-Hemolysin Evokes Generation of Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators Promoting Inflammation Resolution.PMID:33053344(2020)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

This system has the potential to shed light on the dynamics of divergent mitochondrial-nuclear coevolution and its role in promoting speciation.

Cytoplasmic-Nuclear Incompatibility Between Wild Isolates of Caenorhabditis nouraguensis.PMID:28064190(2017)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

In association, L.s. infection neither improved bacterial clearance in TLR2-deficient animals nor ameliorated E. coli-induced hypothermia and sepsis survival.

Chronic filarial infection provides protection against bacterial sepsis by functionally reprogramming macrophages.PMID:25611587(2015)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

L.s. infection significantly improved E. coli-induced hypothermia, bacterial clearance and sepsis survival and correlated with reduced concentrations of associated pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and a less pronounced pro-inflammatory macrophage gene expression profile.

Chronic filarial infection provides protection against bacterial sepsis by functionally reprogramming macrophages.PMID:25611587(2015)
supportsprevents52% conf.

Helminth immunomodulation may benefit sepsis outcome by preventing exacerbated inflammation and severe pathology, but the influence on bacterial clearance remains unclear.

Chronic filarial infection provides protection against bacterial sepsis by functionally reprogramming macrophages.PMID:25611587(2015)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Although the essential components of mitochondrial transport including motors and cargo adaptors are identified, it is less clear how mitochondrial distribution among somato-dendritic and axonal compartment is regulated.

CRMP/UNC-33 organizes microtubule bundles for KIF5-mediated mitochondrial distribution to axon.PMID:33571181(2021)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Mitochondrial-nuclear communication, known as retrograde signaling, is important for regulating nuclear gene expression in response to mitochondrial dysfunction.

Mitochondrial translation inhibition triggers ATF4 activation, leading to integrated stress response but not to mitochondrial unfolded protein response.PMID:33165592(2020)
supportsnegatively regulates52% conf.

The drop in energy charge resulting from the metformin mediated inhibition of mitochondrial activity affects the function of the nuclear pore complex, blocks mTOR signaling and enhances the expression of ACAD10.

Metformin: a metabolic modulator.PMID:28122334(2017)
supportsregulates52% conf.

The authors propose a model whereby bacterial metabolic products regulate a nuclear hormone receptor that promotes lipid accumulation through expression of a secreted Hedgehog-like protein.

Packing on the Pounds in Response to Bacterial Growth Conditions.PMID:28535369(2017)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Measurement of the cytokine levels in the peritoneal lavage fluid of mice in the baicalin treatment group revealed a decrease in IL-4, an increase in interferon γ (IFN-γ), and a reversed IFN-γ/IL-4 ratio compared with the control group, indicating that baicalin treatment activated the Th1-induced immune response to expedite bacterial load clearance.

Baicalin inhibits biofilm formation, attenuates the quorum sensing-controlled virulence and enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa clearance in a mouse peritoneal implant infection model.PMID:28453568(2017)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Here, we discovered that environmental methionine tunes bacterial methyl metabolism to regulate host mitochondrial dynamics and lipid metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans through an endocrine crosstalk involving NR5A nuclear receptor and Hedgehog signalling.

Microbial metabolites regulate host lipid metabolism through NR5A-Hedgehog signalling.PMID:28436966(2017)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Nutrient signaling to CAPER induces mitochondrial transcription and glucose-dependent mitochondrial respiration via coactivation of nuclear receptor ERR-α-mediated Gabpa transcription.

CAPER is vital for energy and redox homeostasis by integrating glucose-induced mitochondrial functions via ERR-α-Gabpa and stress-induced adaptive responses via NF-κB-cMYC.PMID:25830341(2015)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Here we identified a critical transcriptional integrator which eukaryotes share to orchestrate both nutrient-induced mitochondrial energy metabolism and stress-induced nuclear responses, thereby maintaining carbon-nitrogen balance, and preserving life span and reproductive capacity.

CAPER is vital for energy and redox homeostasis by integrating glucose-induced mitochondrial functions via ERR-α-Gabpa and stress-induced adaptive responses via NF-κB-cMYC.PMID:25830341(2015)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Further investigations revealed that this QD-induced autophagy in C. elegans is neither a response to released heavy metal ions by the QDs, nor an attempt to engulf exogenous QD materials, but a defensive strategy of the organism to clear and recycle damaged endosomes.

A real-time documentation and mechanistic investigation of quantum dots-induced autophagy in live Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:26342559(2015)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

This work links two major theories on aging, DNA damage accumulation, and mitochondrial dysfunction through nuclear DNA damage-induced nuclear-mitochondrial signaling, and demonstrates that they are important pathophysiological determinants in premature aging of A-T, pointing to therapeutic interventions.

NAD+ Replenishment Improves Lifespan and Healthspan in Ataxia Telangiectasia Models via Mitophagy and DNA Repair.PMID:27732836(2016)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Thus, mitochondrial damage induces the clearance of mitochondria by the immune pathway, protecting the organism from the toxic effects of mitochondrial dysfunction.

The Mitochondria-Regulated Immune Pathway Activated in the C. elegans Intestine Is Neuroprotective.PMID:27545884(2016)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Loss of PHB2 impairs the stability of OPA1, affects mitochondrial ultrastructure, and induces the perinuclear clustering of mitochondria in hippocampal neurons.

Loss of prohibitin membrane scaffolds impairs mitochondrial architecture and leads to tau hyperphosphorylation and neurodegeneration.PMID:23144624(2012)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Beyond the primary functions of mitochondrial fission and fusion in controlling organelle shape, size, and number, it became clear that these dynamic processes are also critical to regulating cell death, mitophagy, and organelle distribution.

Mitochondrial dynamics in neurodegeneration.PMID:23159640(2013)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Specific antibiotics targeting mitochondrial translation and ethidium bromide (which impairs mitochondrial DNA transcription) pharmacologically mimic mrp knockdown and extend worm lifespan by inducing mitonuclear protein imbalance, a stoichiometric imbalance between nuclear and mitochondrially encoded proteins.

Mitonuclear protein imbalance as a conserved longevity mechanism.PMID:23698443(2013)
supportscauses52% conf.

We found that paraquat, cadmium chloride and aflatoxin B1 caused more mitochondrial than nuclear DNA damage, and paraquat and aflatoxin B1 also caused dopaminergic neurodegeneration. 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) caused similar levels of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage.

Exposure to mitochondrial genotoxins and dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:25486066(2014)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Genetic analyses previously implicated the matrix-localized protease ClpP in signaling the stress of protein misfolding in the mitochondrial matrix to activate nuclear-encoded mitochondrial chaperone genes in C. elegans (UPR(mt)).

The matrix peptide exporter HAF-1 signals a mitochondrial UPR by activating the transcription factor ZC376.7 in C. elegans.PMID:20188671(2010)
supportsnegatively regulates52% conf.

Filarial cystatins suppressed the proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and murine spleen cells, while the C. elegans cystatins had this effect to a much lesser extent.

Parasite-specific immunomodulatory functions of filarial cystatin.PMID:12704112(2003)
supportscauses52% conf.

Therefore, it is important to understand whether failures in the mitochondrial uptake of these nuclear-encoded proteins can cause proteotoxic stress and identify response mechanisms that may counteract it.

Cytosolic aggregation of mitochondrial proteins disrupts cellular homeostasis by stimulating the aggregation of other proteins.PMID:34292154(2021)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

However, how mitochondrial stress activates cytosolic proteostasis remains unclear.

Doxycycline promotes proteasome fitness in the central nervous system.PMID:34417525(2021)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

MA-5 significantly suppressed rotenone-induced mitochondria reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase, mitochondrial network fragmentation and nuclear destruction in body wall muscles as well as endogenous ATP levels decline.

Mitochonic Acid 5 Improves Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Parkinson's Disease Model of Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:36076995(2022)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Although pathways for regulating and re-establishing mitochondrial homeostasis have been identified over the past twenty years, the consequences of disrupting genes that regulate other cellular processes, such as division and proliferation, on affecting mitochondrial function remain unclear.

Examining Sporadic Cancer Mutations Uncovers a Set of Genes Involved in Mitochondrial Maintenance.PMID:37239369(2023)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

Results: Co3O4 NPs was revealed as a bona fide activator of the UPRmt signaling pathway, through fine-tuning mitochondrial dynamics and inducing a stoichiometric imbalance between OXPHOS subunits encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA (nDNA) at early life stage of C. elegans.

Dietary cobalt oxide nanoparticles alleviate aging through activation of mitochondrial UPR in Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:37351160(2023)
supportspositively regulates52% conf.

In this study, we established that UA enhances the survival of Caenorhabditis elegans against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 infection by promoting intestinal bacterial clearance, independent of inhibitory effects on bacterial growth or evasion behavior.

Ursolic Acid Activates Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response to Enhance Innate Immunity via Transcription Factor ATFS-1/ATF5.PMID:41213894(2025)
supportsregulates52% conf.

Coordinated genetic and physical interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear gene products regulate ATP production in the mitochondria.

Abundant Recurrent Mitochondrial Mutations and Widespread Mitonuclear Epistasis in Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:41367310(2025)
supportsregulates52% conf.

The mitochondrial proteome is remodelled to meet metabolic demands, but how metabolic cues regulate mitochondrial protein turnover remains unclear.

Leucine inhibits degradation of outer mitochondrial membrane proteins to adapt mitochondrial respiration.PMID:41174002(2025)
supportspositively regulates51% conf.

The activation of stress responses including mitophagy, mitochondrial number, fission and fusion events, and the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPR(MT)) requires mitochondrial-nuclear communication for the transcriptional activation of nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial quality control and metabolism.

Mitochondrial stress signaling in longevity: a new role for mitochondrial function in aging.PMID:25180170(2014)
supportsregulates51% conf.

Since the bacterially expressed protein of nucleoredoxin showed oxidoreductase activity of the insulin disulfide bonds with kinetics similar to that of thioredoxin, it may be a redox regulator of the nuclear proteins, such as transcription factors.

Cloning and characterization of the nucleoredoxin gene that encodes a novel nuclear protein related to thioredoxin.PMID:9119370(1997)
supportsregulates51% conf.

These include mitochondrial dynamics and function, regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and the cellular capacity to manage protein aggregates in terms of number, size, and clearance efficiency.

Modeling stress-induced proteinopathies in Caenorhabditis elegans.PMID:41724566(2026)

Uncertain evidence (1)

uncertaincauses52% conf.

The G1 and G3 genotypes represent distinct mitochondrial lineages, while showing no differentiation in the nuclear genome, suggesting mito-nuclear discordance caused by historical geographic separation and subsequent fusion.

Whole-genomic comparison reveals complex population dynamics and parasitic adaptation of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto.PMID:40207926(2025)