Cloning, structure, and expression pattern of the P-450 aromatase gene in rice field eel (Monopterus albus)

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 267-280

  Yu, Ju Hua ^a   Tang, Yong Kai ^a   Li, Jian Lin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gene structure; Monopterus albus; P 450 aromatase; Regulatory sequence

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EEL; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FISH; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRON; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PLACENTA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EELS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MONOPTERUS ALBUS; ORYZIINAE; PISCES;

EID: 43049104960     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10528-008-9154-x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Afonso LO, Wassermann GJ, Oliveira RT (2001) Sex reversal in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) using a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor. J Exp Zool 290(2):177-181
2. Akatsuka N, Komatsuzaki E, Ishikawa A, Suzuki I, Yamane N, Miyata S (2005) Expression of the gonadal p450 aromatase gene of Xenopus and characterization of the 5′-flanking region of the aromatase gene. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 96:45-50
3. Anderson T, Forrester J (2001) Administration of oestradiol to barramundi, Lates calcarifer, induces protandrous sex change. In: Goos HITh, Rastogi RK, Vaudry H, Pierantoni R (eds) Perspective in comparative endocrinology, unity and diversity. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, pp 155-164
4. Bhandari RK, Higa M, Nakamura S, Nakamura M (2004) Aromatase inhibitor induces complete sex change in the protogynous honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra). Mol Reprod Dev 67(3):303-307
5. Bhandari RK, Alam MA, Higa M, Soyano K, Nakamura M (2005) Evidence that estrogen regulates the sex change of honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra), a protogynous hermaphrodite fish. J Exp Zool A Comp Exp Biol 303(6):497-503
6. Blazquez M, Piferrer F (2004) Cloning, sequence analysis, tissue distribution, and sex-specific expression of the neural form of P450 aromatase in juvenile sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Mol Cell Endocrinol 219:83-94
7. Breathnach R, Chambon P (1981) Organization and expression of eukaryotic split genes coding for proteins. Annu Rev Biochem 50:349-383
8. Chang C, Lin B (1998) Estradiol-17-beta stimulates aromatase activity and reversible sex change in protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli. J Exp Zool 280:165-173
9. Chang CF, Lin BY, Lau EL, Lee MF, Yueh WS, Lee YH, Chang CN, Huang JD, Tacon P, Lee FY, Du JL, Sun LT (1997a) The endocrine mechanism of sex reversal in the protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli. Chin J Physiol 40:197-205
10. Chang XT, Kobayashi T, Kajiura H, Nakamura M, Nagahama Y (1997b) Isolation and characterization of the cDNA encoding the tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cytochrome P450 aromatase (P450arom): changes in P450arom mRNA. J Mol Endocrinol 18:57-66
11. Chiang EF, Yan YL, Guiguen Y, Postlethwait J, Chung B (2001) Two Cyp19 (P450 aromatase) genes on duplicated zebrafish chromosomes are expressed in ovary or brain. Mol Biol Evol 18:542-550
12. Choi CY, Habibi HR (2003) Molecular cloning of estrogen receptor α and expression pattern of estrogen receptor subtypes in male and female goldfish. Mol Cell Endocrinol 204:169-177
13. Dalla Valle L, Lunardi L, Colomobo L, Belevedere P (2002) European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) cytochrome P450arom: cDNA cloning, expression and genomic organization. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 80:25-34
14. Frohman MA, Dush MK, Martin GR (1988) Rapid production of full-length cDNA from rare transcripts: amplification using a single gene-specific oligo-nucleotide primer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:8998-9002
15. Gardner L, Anderson TA, Place A, Dixon B, Elizur A (2005) Sex change strategy and the aromatase genes. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 94:395-404
16. Gelinas D, Pitoc GA, Callard GV (1998) Isolation of a goldfish brain cytochrome P450 aromatase cDNA: mRNA expression during the seasonal cycle and after steroid treatment. Mol Cell Endocrinol 138:81-93
17. Golovine K, Schwerin M, Vanselow J (2003) Three different promoters control expression of the aromatase cytochrome p450 gene (cyp19) in mouse gonads and brain. Biol Reprod 68:978-984
18. Guiguen Y, Baroiller JF, Ricordel MJ, Iseki K, McMeel OM, Martin SA, Fostier A (1999) Involvement of estrogens in the process of sex differentiation in two fish species: the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchusmykiss) and a tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Mol Reprod Dev 54:154-162
19. Harada N, Yamada K, Saito K, Kibe N, Dohmae S, Takagi Y (1990) Structural characterization of the human estrogen synthetase (aromatase) gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 166:365-372
20. Harada N, Utsumi T, Takagi Y (1993) Tissue-specific expression of the human aromatase cytochrome P-450 gene by alternative use of multiple exons I and protomoters, and switching of tissue-specific exons 1 in carcinogenesis. Pro Natl Acad Sci USA 90:11312-11316
21. Honda S, Harada N, Takagi Y (1994) Novel exon 1 of the aromatase gene specific for aromatase transcripts in human brain. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 198(3):1153-1160
22. Kao YC, Cam LL, Laughton CA, Zhou D, Chen S (1996) Binding characteristics of seven inhibitors of human aromatase: a site-directed mutagenesis study. Cancer Res 56:3451-3460
23. Kishida M, Callard GV (2001) Distinct cytochrome P450 aromatase isoforms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain and ovary are differentially programmed and estrogen regulated during early development. Endocrinology 142:740-750
24. Kitano T, Takamune K, Nagahama Y, Abe S (2000) Aromatase inhibitor and 17a-methyltestosterone cause sex reversal from genetical females to phenotypic males and suppression of P450 aromatase gene expression in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Mol Reprod Dev 56:1-5
25. Kwon JY, Haghpanah V, Kogson-Hurtado LM, McAndrew BJ, Penman DJ (2000) Masculinization of genetic female Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by dietary administration of an aromatase inhibitor during sexual differentiation. J Exp Zool 287(1):46-53
26. Kwon JY, McAndrew BJ, Penman DJ (2001) Cloning of brain aromatase gene and expression of brain and ovarian aromatase genes during sexual differentiation in genetic male and female Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Mol Reprod Dev 59:359-370
27. Lee YH, Yueh WS, Du JL, Sun LT, Chang CF (2002) Aromatase inhibitors block natural sex change and induce male function in the protandrous black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli Bleeker: possible mechanism of natural sex change. Biol Reprod 66(6):1749-1754
28. Li GL, Liu XC, Zhang Y, Bei JX, Lin HR (2004) Cloning and expression of two cytochrome P450 aromatase genes in red-spotted grouper Epinephelus akaara. Acta Zool Sin 50 (5):791-799 (in Chinese with an English abstract)
29. Liu CK (1944) Rudimentary hermaphroditism in the synbranchoid eel, Monopterus javanesis. Sinensia 15:1-8
30. Ohno S (1970) Evolution by gene duplication. Springer, Berlin/New York, pp 59-88
31. Piferrer F, Zanuy S, Carrillo M, Solar I, Devlin R, Donaldson EM (1994) Brief treatment with an aromatase inhibitor during sex differentiation causes chromosomally female salmon to develop as normal, functional males. J Exp Zool 270:255-262
32. Ramachandran B, Schlinger BA, Arnold AP, Campagnoni AT (1999) Zebra finch aromatase gene expression is regulated in the brain through an alternate promoter. Gene 240 (1):209-216
33. Rose TM, Schultz ER, Henikoff JG, Pietrokovski S, McCallum CM, Henikoff S (1998) Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of distantly related sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 26(7):1628-1635
34. Sambrook J, Fritsch E, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York
35. Simpson ER, Zhao Y, Agarwal VR, Michael MD, Bulun SE, Hinshelwood MM, Granham-Lorence S, Sun T, Fisher CR, Qin K, Mendelson CR (1997) Aromatase expression in health and disease. Recent Prog Horm Res 52:185-213
36. Socorro S, Power DM, Olsson P-E, Canario AVM (2000) Two estrogen receptors expressed in the teleost fish, Sparus aurata: cDNA cloning, characterization and tissue distribution. J Endocrinol 166:293-306
37. Tanaka M, Telecky TM, Fukada S, Adachi S, Chen S, Nagahama Y (1992) Cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA encodingP-450 aromatase (P450arom) from a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchusmykiss) ovary relationship between the amount of P450arom mRNA and the production of oestradiol-17 beta in the ovary. J Mol Endocrinol 8:53-61
38. Tanaka M, Fukada S, Matsuyama M, Nagahama Y (1995) Structure and promoter analysis of the cytochrome P-450 aromatase gene of the teleost fish, medaka (Oryzias latipes). J Biochem (Tokyo) 117(4):719-725
39. Tchoudakova A, Callard GV (1998) Identification of multiple CYP19 genes encoding different cytochrome P450 aromatase isozymes in brain and ovary. Endocrinology 139:2179-2189
40. Tchoudakova A, Kishida M, Wood E, Callard GV (2001) Promoter characteristics of two cyp19 genes differentially expressed in the brain and ovary of teleost fish. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 78:427-439
41. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson JF (1994) Clustal W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673-4680
42. Tong SK, Chung BC (2003) Analysis of zebrafish cyp19 promoters. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 86:381-386
43. Trant JM (1994) Isolation and characterization of the cDNA encoding thechannel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) form of cytochrome P450arom. Gen Comp Endocrinol 95:155-168
44. Watanabe M, Tanaka M, Kobayashi D, Yoshiura Y, Oba Y, Nagahama Y (1999) Medaka (Oryzias latipes) FTZ-F1 potentially regulates the transcription of P-450 aromatase in ovarian follicles: cDNA cloning and functional characterization. Mol Cell Endocrinol 149:221-228
45. Yang WY, Gu ZQ, Wang CH, Dong WZ (2004) Observation of gonad histology in the course of the sex reverses for the eels (Monopterus albus). Prog Vet Med 25(6):113-115 (in Chinese with an English abstract)
46. Yin SW, Zhou GJ, Liu Y (2005) Ecological study on the breeding of rice field eel (Monopterus albus). Acta Ecol Sin 25(3):435-439 (in Chinese with an English abstract)
47. Zhou R, Liu L, Guo Y, Yu H, Cheng H, Huang X, Tiersch TR, Berta P (2003) Similar gene structure of two Sox9a genes and their expression patterns during gonadal differentiation in a teleost fish, rice field eel (Monopterus albus). Mol Reprod Dev 66(3):211-217