Characterization of Japanese quail yellow as a genomic deletion upstream of the avian homolog of the mammalian ASIP (agouti) gene

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 777-786

  Nadeau, Nicola J ^a   Minvielle, Francis ^b   Ito, Shin'ichi ^c   Inoue Murayama, Miho ^c   Gourichon, David ^b   Follett, Sarah A ^d   Burke, Terry ^d   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIP GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FOWL; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COTURNIX; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; RNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AGOUTI; AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40849121008     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.077073     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. ANDERSSON, M., 1994 Sexual Selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
2. BENDTSEN, J. D., H. NIELSEN, G. VON HEIJNE and S. BRUNAK, 2004 Improved prediction of signal peptides: SignalP 3.0. J. Mol. Biol. 340: 783-795.
3. BOSWELL, T., and S. TAKEUCHI, 2005 Recent developments in our understanding of the avian melanocortin system: its involvement in the regulation of pigmentation and energy homeostasis. Peptides 26: 1733-1743.
4. BOSWELL, T., Q. LI and S. TAKEUCHI, 2002 Neurons expressing neuropeptide Y mRNA in the infundibular hypothalamus of Japanese quail are activated by fasting and co-express agouti-related protein mRNA. Mol. Brain Res. 100: 31-42.
5. BULTMAN, S. J., E. J. MICHAUD and R. P. WOYCHIK, 1992 Molecular characterization of the mouse agouti locus. Cell 71: 1195-1204.
6. CERDÁ-REVERTER, J. M., T. HAITINA, H. B. SCHIÖTH and R. E. PETER, 2005 Gene structure of the goldfish agouti-signaling protein: a putative role in the dorsal-ventral pigment pattern of fish. Endocrinology 146: 1597-1610.
7. CHANG, C. M., J. L. COVILLE, G. COQUERELLE, D. GOURICHON, A. OULMOUDEN et al., 2006 Complete association between a retroviral insertion in the tyrosinase gene and the recessive white mutation in chickens. BMC Genomics 7: 19.
8. CHEN, W., M. A. KELLY, X. OPITZ-ARAYA, R. E. THOMAS, M. J. LOW et al., 1997 Exocrine gland dysfunction in MC5-R-deficient mice: evidence for coordinated regulation of exocrine gland function by melanocortin peptides. Cell 91: 789-798.
9. CHEN, Y., D. M. J. DUHL and G. S. BARSH, 1996 Opposite orientations of an inverted duplication and allelic variation at the mouse agouti locus. Genetics 144: 265-277.
10. FURUMURA, M., C. SAKAI, S. B. POTTERF, W. D. VIEIRA, G. S. BARSH et al., 1998 Characterization of genes modulated during pheomelanogenesis using differential display. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 7374-7378.
11. FURUMURA, M., S. B. POTTERF, K. TOYOFUKU, J. MATSUNAGA, J. MULLER et al., 2001 Involvement of ITF2 in the transcriptional regulation of melanogenic genes. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 28147-28154.
12. GANTZ, I., and T. M. FONG, 2003 The melanocortin system. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 284: E468-E474.
13. HILL, G. E., and K. J. MCGRAW (Editors), 2006 Bird Coloration. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
14. HIRAGAKI, T., M. INOUE-MURAYAMA, M. MIWA, A. FUJIWARA, M. MIZUTANI et al., 2008 Recessive black is allelic to the yellow plum-age locus in Japanese quail and associated with a frameshift deletion in the ASIP gene. Genetics 178: 771-775.
15. ITO, S., and K. WAKAMATSU, 2003 Quantitative analysis of eumelanin and pheomelanin in humans, mice, and other animals: a comparative review. Pigment Cell Res. 16: 523-531.
16. KELSH, R. N., 2004 Genetics and evolution of pigment patterns in fish. Pigment Cell Res. 17: 326-336.
17. KLOVINS, J., and H. B. SCHIÖTH, 2005 Agouti-related proteins (AGRPs) and agouti-signaling peptide (ASIP) in fish and chicken. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1040: 363-367.
18. KOBAYASHI, T., W. D. VIEIRA, B. POTTERF, C. SAKAI, G. IMOKAWA et al., 1995 Modulation of melanogenic protein expression during the switch from eu- to pheomelanogenesis. J. Cell Sci. 108: 2301-2309.
19. LAMASON, R. L., M. P. K. MOHIDEEN, J. R. MEST, A. C. WONG, H. L. NORTON et al., 2005 SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in zebrafish and humans. Science 310: 1782-1786.
20. LING, M. K., E. HOTTA, Z. KILIANOVA, T. HAITINA, A. RINGHOLM et al., 2004 The melanocortin receptor subtypes in chicken have high preference to ACTH-derived peptides. Br. J. Pharmacol. 143: 626-637.
21. y) mutation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 2562-2566.
22. MILLAR, S. E., M. W. MILLER, M. E. STEVENS and G. S. BARSH, 1995 Expression and transgenic studies of the mouse agouti gene provide insight into the mechanisms by which mammalian coat color patterns are generated. Development 121: 3223-3232.
23. MILTENBERGER, R. J., R. L. MYNATT, J. E. WILKINSON and R. P. WOYCHIK, 1997 The role of the agouti gene in the yellow obese syndrome. J. Nutr. 127: 1902S-1907S.
24. MINVIELLE, F., D. GOURICHON, S. ITO, M. INOUE-MURAYAMA and S. RIVIÈRE, 2007 Effects of the dominant lethal yellow mutation on reproduction, growth, feed consumption, body temperature, and body composition in Japanese quail. Poult. Sci. 86: 1646-1650.
25. MIWA, M., M. INOUE-MURAYAMA, B. B. KAYANG, A. VIGNAL, F. MINVIELLE et al., 2005 Mapping of plumage colour and blood protein loci on the microsatellite linkage map of the Japanese quail. Anim. Genet. 36: 396-400.
26. MOCHII, M., T. ONO, Y. MATSUBARA and G. EGUCHI, 1998 Spontaneous transdifferentiation of quail pigmented epithelial cell is accompanied by a mutation in the MITF gene. Dev. Biol. 196: 145-159.
27. MUNDY, N. I., 2005 A window on the genetics of evolution: MC1R and plumage colouration in birds. Proc. Biol. Sci. 272: 1633-1640.
28. MUNDY, N. I., N. S. BADCOCK, T. HART, K. SCRIBNER, K. JANSSEN et al., 2004 Conserved genetic basis of a quantitative plumage trait involved in mate choice. Science 303: 1870-1873.
29. NADEAU, N. J., F. MINVIELLE and N. I. MUNDY, 2006 Association of a Glu92Lys substitution in MC1R with extended brown in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Anim. Genet. 37: 287-289.
30. NADEAU, N. J., T. BURKE and N. I. MUNDY, 2007a Evolution of an avian pigmentation gene correlates with a measure of sexual selection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 274: 1807-1813.
31. NADEAU, N. J., N. I. MUNDY, D. GOURICHON and F. MINVIELLE, 2007b Association of a single-nucleotide substitution in TYRP1 with roux in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Anim. Genet. 38: 609-613.
32. NIELSEN, H., J. ENGELBRECHT, S. BRUNAK and G. VON HEIJNE, 1997 Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites. Protein Eng. 10: 1-6.
33. RINCHIK, E. M., S. J. BULTMAN, B. HORSTHEMKE, S. T. LEE, K. STRUNK et al., 1993 A gene for the mouse pink-eyed dilution locus and for human type II oculocutaneous albinism. Nature 361: 72-76.
34. SIRACUSA, L. D., 1994 The agouti gene: turned on to yellow. Trends Genet. 10: 423-428.
35. SMYTH, JR., J. R., 1990 Genetics of plumage, skin and eye pigmentation in chickens, pp. 109-167 in Poultry Breeding and Genetics, edited by R. D. CRAWFORD. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
36. SOMES, R. G., JR., 1979 Genetic bases for plumage color patterns in four varieties of Japanese quail. J. Hered. 70: 205-210.
37. STRADER, A. D., H. B. SCHIÖTH and J. D. BUNTIN, 2003 The role of the melanocortin system and the melanocortin-4 receptor in ring dove (Streptopelia risoria) feeding behavior. Brain Res. 960: 112-121.
38. SURAGANI, R. N. V. S., R. KAMINDLA, N. Z. EHTESHAM and K. V. A. RAMAIAH, 2005 Interaction of recombinant human eIF2 subunits with eIF2B and eIF2α kinases. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 338: 1766-1772.
39. TAKEUCHI, S., and S. TAKAHASHI, 1998 Melanocortin receptor genes in the chicken - tissue distributions. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 112: 220-231.
40. TAKEUCHI, S., and S. TAKAHASHI, 1999 A possible involvement of melanocortin 3 receptor in the regulation of adrenal gland function in the chicken. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1448: 512-518.
41. TAKEUCHI, S., H. SUZUKI, M. YABUUCHI and S. TAKAHASHI, 1996 A possible involvement of melanocortin 1-receptor in regulating feather color pigmentation in the chicken. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1308: 164-168.
42. TAKEUCHI, S., K. TESHIGAWARA and S. TAKAHASHI, 2000 Widespread expression of Agouti-related protein (AGRP) in the chicken: a possible involvement of AGRP in regulating peripheral melanocortin systems in the chicken. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1496: 261-269.
43. THERON, E., K. HAWKES, E. BERMINGHAM, R. E. RICKLEFS and N. I. MUNDY, 2001 The molecular basis of an avian plumage polymorphism in the wild: a melanocortin-1-receptor point mutation is perfectly associated with the melanic plumage morph of the bananaquit, Coereba flaveola. Curr. Biol. 11: 550-557.
44. TUSHER, V. G., R. TIBSHIRANI and G. CHU, 2001 Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 5116-5121.
45. VOISEY, J., G. KELLY and A. VAN DAAL, 2003 Agouti signal protein regulation in human melanoma cells. Pigment Cell Res. 16: 65-71.
46. VRIELING, H., D. M. J. DUHL, S. E. MILLAR, K. A. MILLER and G. S. BARSH, 1994 Differences in dorsal and ventral pigmentation result from regional expression of the mouse Agouti gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 5667-5671.
47. YANG, Y. K., D. A. THOMPSON, C. J. DICKINSON, J. WILKEN, G. S. BARSH et al., 1999 Characterization of Agouti-related protein binding to melanocortin receptors. Mol. Endocrinol. 13: 148-155.