Identification of Thyroid Hormones and Functional Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Provide Insight into Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone System

	Identification of Thyroid Hormones and Functional Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Provide Insight into Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone System
	Huang, Wen1,2,3,4 ; Xu, Fei 1,3,4; Qu, Tao 1,3,4; Zhang, Rui1,2,3,4 ; Li, Li 1,3,4; Que, Huayong 1,3,4; Zhang, Guofan 1,3,4
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2015-12-28
卷号	10 期号:12 页码:0144991
英文摘要	Thyroid hormones (THs) play important roles in development, metamorphosis, and metabolism in vertebrates. During the past century, TH functions were regarded as a synapomorphy of vertebrates. More recently, accumulating evidence has gradually convinced us that TH functions also occur in invertebrate chordates. To date, however, TH-related studies in non-chordate invertebrates have been limited. In this study, THs were qualitatively detected by two reliable methods (HPLC and LC/MS) in a well-studied molluscan species, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. Quantitative measurement of THs during the development of C. gigas showed high TH contents during embryogenesis and that oyster embryos may synthesize THs endogenously. As a first step in elucidating the TH signaling cascade, an ortholog of vertebrate TH receptor (TR), the most critical gene mediating TH effects, was cloned in C. gigas. The sequence of CgTR has conserved DNA-binding and ligand-binding domains that normally characterize these receptors. Experimental results demonstrated that CgTR can repress gene expression through binding to promoters of target genes and can interact with oyster retinoid X receptor. Moreover, CgTR mRNA expression was activated by T4 and the transcriptional activity of CgTR promoter was repressed by unliganded CgTR protein. An atypical thyroid hormone response element (CgDR5) was found in the promoter of CgTR, which was verified by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA). These results indicated that some of the CgTR function is conserved. However, the EMSA assay showed that DNA binding specificity of CgTR was different from that of the vertebrate TR and experiments with two dual-luciferase reporter systems indicated that L-thyroxine, 3,30,5-triiodothyronine, and triiodothyroacetic acid failed to activate the transcriptional activity of CgTR. This is the first study to functionally characterize TR in mollusks. The presence of THs and the functions of CgTR in mollusks contribute to better understanding of the evolution of the TH system.
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000367451400017
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/86647]
专题	海洋研究所_海洋生物技术研发中心海洋研究所_实验海洋生物学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Expt Marine Biol, Qingdao, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Qingdao Natl Lab Marine Sci & Technol, Lab Marine Biol & Biotechnol, Qingdao, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Natl & Local Joint Engn Lab Ecol Mariculture, Qingdao, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huang, Wen,Xu, Fei,Qu, Tao,et al. Identification of Thyroid Hormones and Functional Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Provide Insight into Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone System[J]. PLOS ONE,2015,10(12):0144991.
APA	Huang, Wen.,Xu, Fei.,Qu, Tao.,Zhang, Rui.,Li, Li.,...&Zhang, Guofan.(2015).Identification of Thyroid Hormones and Functional Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Provide Insight into Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone System.PLOS ONE,10(12),0144991.
MLA	Huang, Wen,et al."Identification of Thyroid Hormones and Functional Characterization of Thyroid Hormone Receptor in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Provide Insight into Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone System".PLOS ONE 10.12(2015):0144991.