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Neofunctionalization in Vertebrates: The Example of Retinoic Acid Receptors
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Escrivà, Héctor Bertrand, Stéphanie Germain, Pierre Robinson-Rechavi, Marc Umbhauer, Muriel Cartry, Jérôme Duffraisse, Marilyne Holland, Linda Z. Gronemeyer, Hinrich Laudet, Vincent |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Understanding the role of gene duplications in establishing vertebrate innovations is one of the main challenges of Evo-Devo (evolution of development) studies. Data on evolutionary changes in gene expression (i.e., evolution of transcription factor-cis-regulatory elements relationships) tell only part of the story; protein function, best studied by biochemical and functional assays, can also change. In this study, we have investigated how gene duplication has affected both the expression and the ligand-binding specificity of retinoic acid receptors (RARs), which play a major role in chordate embryonic development. Mammals have three paralogous RAR genes--RAR alpha, beta, and gamma--which resulted from genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates. By using pharmacological ligands selective for specific paralogues, we have studied the ligand-binding capacities of RARs from diverse chordates species. We have found that RAR beta-like binding selectivity is a synapomorphy of all chordate RARs, including a reconstructed synthetic RAR representing the receptor present in the ancestor of chordates. Moreover, comparison of expression patterns of the cephalochordate amphioxus and the vertebrates suggests that, of all the RARs, RAR beta expression has remained most similar to that of the ancestral RAR. On the basis of these results together, we suggest that while RAR beta kept the ancestral RAR role, RAR alpha and RAR gamma diverged both in ligand-binding capacity and in expression patterns. We thus suggest that neofunctionalization occurred at both the expression and the functional levels to shape RAR roles during development in vertebrates. |
| Starting Page | 125 |
| Ending Page | 133 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 16839186 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Journal | PLoS genetics |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/fe/84/pgen.0020102.PMC1500811.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_9B994D87AC3D.P001/REF |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.0020102&type=printable |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Chordata Gene Duplication Abnormality Gene Expression Lancelets Ligands Pharmacology Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts Retinoic Acid Receptor TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR Thioctic Acid Tretinoin Vertebrates chordate embryonic development |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
