PUBLICATION
Cis-regulation and chromosomal rearrangement of the fgf8 locus after the Teleost/tetrapod split
- Authors
- Komisarczuk, A.Z., Kawakami, K., and Becker, T.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-090929-17
- Date
- 2009
- Source
- Developmental Biology 336(2): 301-312 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Becker, Thomas S., Kawakami, Koichi, Komisarczuk, Anna Zofia
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes*
- DNA Primers
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/genetics*
- Fishes/genetics*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- In Situ Hybridization
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 19782672 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Komisarczuk, A.Z., Kawakami, K., and Becker, T.S. (2009) Cis-regulation and chromosomal rearrangement of the fgf8 locus after the Teleost/tetrapod split. Developmental Biology. 336(2):301-312.
Abstract
The complex expression pattern of fibroblast growth factor 8 (Fgf8) and cellular responses dependent on concentration of its mRNA in vertebrates suggest that Fgf8 should be tightly controlled at the transcriptional level. We found zebrafish conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) with pan-vertebrate as well as fish-specific orthologous sequences from across 200kb of the zebrafish fgf8a genomic regulatory block to direct reporter expression in patterns consistent with the expression pattern of fgf8a. These included elements from inside the introns of the skin-specific slc2a15a and the ubiquitously expressed fbxw4 bystander genes. The fgf8a/fbxw4 gene pair, which has remained joined throughout three whole genome duplications in chordate evolution, is inverted in teleost genomes, but CNEs across both evolutionary breakpoints showed specific activity. While some CNEs directed highly reproducible expression patterns, others were subject to variation but showed, in a subset of transgenes, expression in the apical ectodermal ridge, the anterior boundaries of somites, and the mid-hindbrain boundary,-specific Fgf8 signaling domains-, suggesting that their activity may be context-specific. A human element with tetrapod-specific orthologous sequences directed reporter expression to the vasculature, possibly corresponding to a tetrapod innovation. We conclude that fgf8a transcriptional regulation employs pan-vertebrate and teleost-specific enhancers dispersed over three genes in the zebrafish genome.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping