PUBLICATION
A Review of the Functional Roles of the Zebrafish Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors
- Authors
- Shankar, P., Dasgupta, S., Hahn, M.E., Tanguay, R.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201002-167
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 178(2): 215-238 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Hahn, Mark E., Shankar, Prarthana, Tanguay, Robyn L.
- Keywords
- TCDD, Zebrafish, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), cytochrome P450, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins*
- Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon*
- Zebrafish*
- Zebrafish Proteins*
- PubMed
- 32976604 Full text @ Toxicol. Sci.
Citation
Shankar, P., Dasgupta, S., Hahn, M.E., Tanguay, R.L. (2020) A Review of the Functional Roles of the Zebrafish Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 178(2):215-238.
Abstract
Over the last two decades, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a stellar model for unraveling molecular signaling events mediated by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR), an important ligand-activated receptor found in all eumetazoan animals. Zebrafish have three AHRs - AHR1a, AHR1b, and AHR2, and studies have demonstrated the diversity of both the endogenous and toxicological functions of the zebrafish AHRs. In this contemporary review, we first highlight the evolution of the zebrafish ahr genes, and the characteristics of the receptors including developmental and adult expression, their endogenous and inducible roles, and the predicted ligands from homology modeling studies. We then review the toxicity of a broad spectrum of AHR ligands across multiple life stages (early stage, and adult), discuss their transcriptomic and epigenetic mechanisms of action, and report on any known interactions between the AHRs and other signaling pathways. Through this article, we summarize the promising research that furthers our understanding of the complex AHR pathway through the extensive use of zebrafish as a model, coupled with a large array of molecular techniques. Since much of the research has focused on the functions of AHR2 during development and the mechanism of TCDD toxicity, we illustrate the need to address the considerable knowledge gap in our understanding of both the mechanistic roles of AHR1a and AHR1b, and the diverse modes of toxicity of the various AHR ligands.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping