Localization of diversified relaxin gene transcripts in the brain of eels.

Abstract:

:Relaxin 3 (RLN3) is a newly-discovered member of the insulin superfamily. We isolated three RLN3-like cDNAs from the brain of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica). The deduced amino acid sequences of the RLN3-like cDNAs contained the two-chain structure common to relaxin including a RXXXRXXI/V motif in the B-chain. Phylogenetic analysis assigned the two prepropeptides into teleost/mammalian RLN3 group, which are a pair of duplicates generated by the teleost-specific third-round whole genome duplication, and the other one into teleost RLN group. Therefore, they have been named eel rln3a, rln3b and rln. rln3a transcripts were abundant in the middle-posterior region of the brain and detected at lower levels in the gills, head kidney and kidney. rln3b transcripts were also detected in the middle-posterior region of the brain, but the expression levels were lower than those of rln3a. Low levels of rln transcripts were detected in all brain areas, pituitary, digestive tract and gonad. Quantitative PCR analysis did not detect differences in expression of any rln3 or rln gene between freshwater- and seawater-acclimated eels. In situ hybridization showed that rln3a was expressed in neurons of the lateral lemniscus of the midbrain and of the griseum centrale (GC) of the hindbrain, while low amounts of rln transcripts were found in neurons of the periventricular nucleus of the posterior tuberculum of the diencephalon and the GC. These results suggest that the multiple RLN3-like peptides may play regulatory roles in the brain of euryhaline fish.

journal_name

Gen Comp Endocrinol

authors

Hu GB,Kusakabe M,Takei Y

doi

10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.04.013

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-07-01 00:00:00

pages

430-9

issue

3

eissn

0016-6480

issn

1095-6840

pii

S0016-6480(11)00154-7

journal_volume

172

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