PUBLICATION
Evolutionary recruitment of flexible Esrp-dependent splicing programs into diverse embryonic morphogenetic processes
- Authors
- Burguera, D., Marquez, Y., Racioppi, C., Permanyer, J., Torres-Méndez, A., Esposito, R., Albuixech-Crespo, B., Fanlo, L., D'Agostino, Y., Gohr, A., Navas-Perez, E., Riesgo, A., Cuomo, C., Benvenuto, G., Christiaen, L.A., Martí, E., D'Aniello, S., Spagnuolo, A., Ristoratore, F., Arnone, M.I., Garcia-Fernŕndez, J., Irimia, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180921-17
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Nature communications 8: 1799 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- D'Aniello, Salvatore, Esposito, Rosaria, Irimia, Manuel
- Keywords
- none
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE97267
- MeSH Terms
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- Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Lancelets
- RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- RNA-Binding Proteins/physiology*
- Male
- Exons/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology
- Female
- Mutation
- Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition/physiology*
- Urochordata
- Embryonic Development/genetics*
- Animals
- RNA Splicing/physiology*
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
- Zebrafish
- Biological Evolution
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- PubMed
- 29180615 Full text @ Nat. Commun.
Citation
Burguera, D., Marquez, Y., Racioppi, C., Permanyer, J., Torres-Méndez, A., Esposito, R., Albuixech-Crespo, B., Fanlo, L., D'Agostino, Y., Gohr, A., Navas-Perez, E., Riesgo, A., Cuomo, C., Benvenuto, G., Christiaen, L.A., Martí, E., D'Aniello, S., Spagnuolo, A., Ristoratore, F., Arnone, M.I., Garcia-Fernŕndez, J., Irimia, M. (2017) Evolutionary recruitment of flexible Esrp-dependent splicing programs into diverse embryonic morphogenetic processes. Nature communications. 8:1799.
Abstract
Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions are crucial for the development of numerous animal structures. Thus, unraveling how molecular tools are recruited in different lineages to control interplays between these tissues is key to understanding morphogenetic evolution. Here, we study Esrp genes, which regulate extensive splicing programs and are essential for mammalian organogenesis. We find that Esrp homologs have been independently recruited for the development of multiple structures across deuterostomes. Although Esrp is involved in a wide variety of ontogenetic processes, our results suggest ancient roles in non-neural ectoderm and regulating specific mesenchymal-to-epithelial transitions in deuterostome ancestors. However, consistent with the extensive rewiring of Esrp-dependent splicing programs between phyla, most developmental defects observed in vertebrate mutants are related to other types of morphogenetic processes. This is likely connected to the origin of an event in Fgfr, which was recruited as an Esrp target in stem chordates and subsequently co-opted into the development of many novel traits in vertebrates.
Genes / Markers
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Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
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