Molecular cloning and quantitative expression of sexually dimorphic markers Dmrt1 and Foxl2 during female-to-male sex change in Epinephelus merra

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-85

  Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^a   Horiguchi, Ryo ^a   Hirai, Toshiaki ^b   Nakamura, Masaru ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dmrt1; Foxl2; Honeycomb grouper; Molecular cloning; Protogynous sex change; Sexually dimorphic markers

Indexed keywords

DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1A; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXI2;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPINEPHELUS MERRA; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 43249092522     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. M.A. Alam H. Komuro R.K. Bhandari S. Nakamura K. Soyano M. Nakamura Immunohistochemical evidence identifying the site of androgen production in the ovary of the protogynous grouper Epinephelus merra Cell Tissue Res. 320 2005 323 329
2. M.A. Alam R.K. Bhandari Y. Kobayashi K. Soyano M. Nakamura Changes in androgen-producing cell size and circulating 11-ketotestosterone levels during female-to-male sex change in honeycomb grouper ( Epinephelus merra ) Mol. Reprod. Dev. 73 2006 206 214
3. M.A. Alam R.K. Bhandari Y. Kobayashi K. Soyano M. Nakamura Induction of sex change within two full moons during breeding season and spawning in grouper Aquaculture 255 2006 532 535
4. M.A. Alam M. Nakamura Efferent duct differentiation during, female-to-male sex change in honeycomb grouper Epinephelus merra J. Fish Biol. 71 2007 1192 1202
5. D. Baron J. Cocquet X. Xia M. Fellous Y. Guiguen R.A. Veitia An evolutionary and functional analysis of FoxL2 in rainbow trout gonad differentiation J. Mol. Endocrinol. 33 2004 705 715
6. R.K. Bhandari H. Komuro S. Nakamura M. Higa M. Nakamura Gonadal restructuring and correlative steroid hormone profiles during natural sex change in protogynous honeycomb grouper, Epinephelus merra Zoolog. Sci. 20 2003 1399 1404
7. R.K. Bhandari M. Higa S. Nakamura M. Nakamura Aromatase inhibitor induces complete sex change in a protogynous honeycomb grouper, Epinephelus merra Mol. Reprod. Dev. 67 2004 303 307
8. R.K. Bhandari M.A. Alam M. Nakamura Induction of female-to-male sex reversal in homeycomb grouper ( Epinephelus merra ) by 11-ketotestosterone treatments Zoolog. Sci. 23 2006 65 69
9. H.H. Cheng M. Ying Y.H. Tian Y. Guo K. McElreavey R.J. Zhou Transcriptional diversity of DMRT1 (dsx- and mab3-related transcription factor 1) in human testis Cell Res. 16 2006 389 393
10. Ramu Chenna Hideaki Sugawara Tadashi Koike Rodrigo Lopez Toby J. Gibson Desmond G. Higgins Julie D. Thompson Multiple sequence alignment with the Clustal series of programs Nucleic Acids Res. 31 2003 3497 3500
11. L. Crisponi M. Deiana A. Loi F. Chiappe M. Uda P. Amati L. Bisceglia L. Zelante R. Nagaraja S. Porcu M.S. Ristaldi R. Marzella M. Rocchi M. Nicolino A. Lienhardt-Roussie A. Nivelon A. Verloes D. Schlessinger P. Gasparini D. Bonneau A. Cao G. Pilia The putative forkhead transcription factor FOXL2 is mutated in blepharophimosis/ptosis/epicanthus inversus syndrome Nat. Genet. 27 2001 159 166
12. A. De Grandi V. Calvari V. Bertini A. Bulfone G. Peverali G. Camerino G. Borsani S. Guioli The expression pattern of a mouse doublesex-related gene is consistent with a role in gonadal differentiation Mech. Dev. 90 2000 323 326
13. W.L. Flejter J. Fergestad J. Gorski T. Varvill S. Chandrasekharappa A gene involved in XY sex reversal is located on chromosome 9, distal to marker D9S1779 Am. J. Hum. Genet. 63 1998 794 802
14. J.I. Fernandino L.G. Guilgur G.M. Somoza Dmrt1 expression analysis during spermatogenesis in pejerrey, Odontesthes bonariensis Fish Physiol. Biochem. 32 2006 231 240
15. S. Guioli K. Schmitt R. Critcher M. Bouzyk N.K. Spurr T. Ogata J.J. Hoo L. Pinsky G. Gimelli L. Pasztor P.N. Goodfellow Molecular analysis of 9p deletions associated with XY sex reversal: refining the localization of a sex-determining gene to the tip of the chromosome Am. J. Hum. Genet. 63 1998 905 908
16. M.S. Govoroun M. Pannetier E. Pailhoux J. Cocquet J.-P. Brillard I. Couty F. Batellier C. Cotinot Isolation of chicken homolog of the FOXL2 gene and comparison of its expression patterns with those of aromatase during ovarian development Dev. Dyn. 231 2004 859 870
17. G. Guan T. Kobayashi Y. Nagahama Sexually dimorphic expression of two types of DM (Doublesex/Mab-3)-domain genes in a teleost fish, the Tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus ) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 272 2000 662 666
18. Y.H. Guo X. Cheng S. Huang H. Gao Yu R. Zhou Gene structure, multiple alternative splicing, and expression in gonads of Zebrafish Dmrt1 Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 330 2005 950 957
19. X.Y. Huang Y. Guo S. Shui H. Gao H. Yu H. Cheng R. Zhou Multiple alternative splicing and differential expression of dmrt1 during gonad transformation of the rice field eel Biol. Reprod. 73 2005 1017 1024
20. K.H. Kaestner W. Knochel D.E. Martinez Unified nomenclature for the winged helix/forkhead transcription factors Genes Dev. 14 2000 142 146
21. A. Kanamori A. Yamamura S. Koshiba J.-S. Lee E.F. Orlando H. Hori Methyltestosterone efficiently induces male development in the self-fertilizing hermaphrodite fish, Kryptolebias marmoratus Genesis 44 2006 495 503
22. J.R. Kettlewell C.S. Raymond D. Zarkower Temperature-dependent expression of turtle Dmrt1 prior to sexual differentiation Genesis 26 2000 174 178
23. E.V. Kriventseva I. Koch R. Apweiler M. Vingron P. Bork M.S. Gelfand S. Sunyaev Increase of functional diversity by alternative splicing Trends Genet. 19 2003 124 128
24. O.J. Lehmann J.C. Sowden P. Carlsson T. Jordan S.S. Bhattacharya Fox’s in development and disease Trends Genet. 19 2003 339 344
25. Z. Liu F. Wu B. Jiao X. Zhang C. Hu B. Huang L. Zhou X. Huang Z. Wang Y. Zhang Y. Nagahama C.H.K. Cheng D. Wang Molecular cloning of doublesex and mab-3-related transcription factor 1, forkhead transcription factor gene 2, and two types of cytochrome P450 aromatase in Southern catfish and their possible roles in sex differentiation J. Endocrinol. 194 2007 223 241
26. K.A. Loffler D. Zarkower P. Koopman Etiology of ovarian failure in blepharophimosis ptosis epicanthus inversus syndrome: FOXL2 is a conserved, early-acting gene in vertebrate ovarian development Endocrinology 144 2003 3237 3243
27. G.H. Lutfalla R. Crollius F.G. Brunet V. Laudet M. Robinson-Rechavi Inventing a sex-specific gene: a conserved role of DMRT1 in Teleost fishes plus a recent duplication in the Medaka Oryzias latipes resulted in DMY J. Mol. Evol. 57 2003 S148 S153
28. H. Lu X. Huang L. Zhang Y. Guo H. Cheng R. Zhou Multiple alternative splicing of mouse Dmrt1 during gonadal differentiation Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 352 2007 630 634
29. O. Marchand M. Govoroun H. D’Cotta O. McMeel J. Lareyre A. Bernot V. Laudet Y. Guiguen DMRT1 expression during gonadal differentiation and spermatogenesis in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1493 2000 180 187
30. M. Matsuda Y. Nagahama A. Shinomiya T. Sato C. Matsuda T. Kobayashi C.E. Morrey N. Shibata S. Asakawa N. Shimizu H. Hori S. Hamaguchi M. Sakaizumi DMY is a Y-specific DM-domain gene required for male development in the medaka fish Nature 417 2002 559 563
31. M. Nakamoto M. Matsuda D.S. Wang Y. Nagahama N. Shibata Molecular cloning and analysis of gonadal expression of Foxl2 in the medaka, Oryzias latipes Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 344 2007 353 361
32. I. Nanda M. Kondo U. Hornung S. Asakawa C. Winkler A. Shimizu Z. Shan T. Haaf N. Shimizu A. Shima M. Schmid M. Schartl A duplicated copy of DMRT1 in the sex determining region of the Y chromosome of the medaka, Oryzias latipes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 2002 11778 11783
33. K.B. Nicholas H.B. Nicholas D.W. Deerfield GeneDoc: analysis and visualization of genetic variation EMBNEW News 4 1997 14
34. R.D.M. Page TREEVIEW: an application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers Comput. Appl. Biosci. 12 1996 357 358
35. C.S. Raymond C.E. Shamu M.M. Shen K.J. Seifert B. Hirsch J. Hodgkin D. Zarkower Evidence for evolutionary conservation of sex-determining genes Nature 391 1998 691 695
36. C.S. Raymond J.R. Kettlewell B. Hirsch V.J. Bardwell D. Zarkower Expression of DMRT1 in the genital ridge of mouse and chicken embryos suggests a role in vertebrate sexual development Dev. Biol. 215 1999 208 220
37. C.S. Raymond E.D. Parker J.R. Kettlewell L.G. Brown D.C. Page K. Kusz J. Jaruzelska Y. Reinberg W.L. Flejter V.J. Bardwell B. Hirsch D. Zarkower A region of human chromosome 9p required for testis development contains two genes related to known sexual regulators Hum. Mol. Genet. 8 1999 989 996
38. C.S. Raymond M.W. Murphy M.G. O’Sullivan V.J. Bardwell D. Zarkower Dmrt1, a gene related to worm and fly sexual regulators, is required for mammalian testis differentiation Genes Dev. 14 2000 2587 2595
39. C.A. Smith M. Katz A.H. Sinclair DMRT1 is upregulated in the gonads during female-to-male sex reversal in ZW chicken embryos Biol. Reprod. 68 2003 560 570
40. C.A. Smith P.J. McClive P.S. Western K.J. Reed A.H. Sinclair Conservation of a sex-determining gene Nature 402 1999 601 602
41. N. Saitou M. Nei The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees Mol. Biol. Evol. 4 1987 406 425
42. D. Schmidt C.E. Ovitt K. Anlag S. Fehsenfeld L. Gredsted A.C. Treier M. Treier The murine winged-helix transcription factor Foxl2 is required for granulosa cell differentiation and ovary maintenance Development 131 2004 933 942
43. J.D. Thompson T.J. Gibson F. Plewniak F. Jeanmougin D.G. Higgins The ClustalX windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools Nucleic Acids Res. 24 1997 4876 4882
44. M. Uda C. Ottolenghi L. Crisponi J.E. Garcia M. Deiana W. Kimber A. Forabosco A. Cao D. Schlessinger G. Pilia Foxl2 disruption causes mouse ovarian failure by pervasive blockage of follicle development Hum. Mol. Genet. 13 2004 1171 1181
45. D.S. Wang T. Kobayashi L. Zhou Y. Nagahama Molecular cloning and gene expression of Foxl2 in the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 320 2004 83 89
46. Wang, D.S., Kobayashi, T., Zhou, L.Y., Ijiri, S., Morohashi, K., Nagahama, Y., 2006. Transcriptional regulation of aromatase (Cyp19a1) by Foxl2 and Dmrt1 in the gonads during sex differentiation in the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus . In: The 4th International Symposium on the Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination. Hawaii, USA, pp. 35–36.
47. D.S. Wang T. Kobayashi L.Y. Zhou B. Paul-Prasanth S. Ijiri F. Sakai K. Okubo K.I. Morohashi Y. Nagahama Foxl2 up-regulates aromatase gene transcription in a female-specific manner by binding to the promoter as well as interacting with Ad4BP/SF-1 Mol. Endocrinol. 21 2007 712 725
48. W. Xia L. Zhou B. Yao C.-J. Li J.-F. Gui Differential and spermatogenic cell-specific expression of DMRT1 during sex reversal in protogynous hermaphroditic groupers Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 263 2007 156 172
49. T. Yamaguchi S. Yamaguchi T. Hirai T. Kitano Follicle-stimulating hormone signaling and Foxl2 are involved in transcriptional regulation of aromatase gene during gonadal sex differentiation in Japanese flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 359 2007 935 940
50. Y. Zhao H. Lu H. Yu H. Cheng R. Zhou Multiple alternative splicing in gonads of chicken DMRT1 Dev. Genes Evol. 217 2007 119 126