scholarly journals Nemertean, brachiopod and phoronid neuropeptidomics reveals ancestral spiralian signalling systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Thiel ◽  
Luis Alfonso Yanez Guerra ◽  
Mirita Franz-Wachtel ◽  
Andreas Hejnol ◽  
Gaspar Jekely
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Peptide Sequence ◽  
Peptide Receptor ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
Specific Expansion ◽  
Neuropeptide Evolution ◽  
G Protein Coupled ◽  
Signalling Systems ◽  
Detailed Picture

Neuropeptides are diverse signalling molecules in animals commonly acting through G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). Neuropeptides and their receptors underwent extensive diversification in bilaterians and the relationships of many peptide-receptor systems have been clarified. However, we lack a detailed picture of neuropeptide evolution in lophotrochozoans as in-depth studies only exist for molluscs and annelids. Here we analyse peptidergic systems in Nemertea, Brachiopoda and Phoronida. We screened transcriptomes from thirteen nemertean, six brachiopod and four phoronid species for proneuropeptides and neuropeptide GPCRs. With mass spectrometry from the nemertean Lineus longissimus, we validated several predicted peptides and identified novel ones. Molecular phylogeny combined with peptide-sequence and gene-structure comparisons allowed us to comprehensively map spiralian neuropeptide evolution. We found most mollusc and annelid peptidergic systems also in nemerteans, brachiopods and phoronids. We uncovered previously hidden relationships including the orthologies of spiralian CCWamides to arthropod agatoxin-like peptides and of mollusc APGWamides to RGWamides from annelids, with orthologues systems in nemerteans, brachiopods and phoronids. We found that pleurin neuropeptides previously only found in molluscs are also present in nemerteans and brachiopods. We also identified cases of gene family duplications and losses. These include a protostome-specific expansion of RFamide/Wamide signalling, a spiralian expansion of GnRH-related peptides, and duplications of vasopressin/oxytocin before the divergence of brachiopods, phoronids and nemerteans. This analysis expands our knowledge of peptidergic signalling in spiralians and protostomes. Our annotated dataset of nearly 1,300 proneuropeptide sequences and 600 GPCRs presents a useful resource for further studies of neuropeptide signalling in protostomes.

scholarly journals MECHANISMS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: An update in the genetic aetiologies of combined pituitary hormone deficiency

2016 ◽  
Vol 174 (6) ◽  
pp. R239-R247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Castinetti ◽  
Rachel Reynaud ◽  
Alexandru Saveanu ◽  
Nicolas Jullien ◽  
Marie Helene Quentien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factors ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Hormone Deficiency ◽  
Immunoglobulin Superfamily ◽  
Pituitary Hormone ◽  
Pituitary Hormone Deficiency ◽  
Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
G Protein Coupled

Over the last 5 years, new actors involved in the pathogenesis of combined pituitary hormone deficiency in humans have been reported: they included a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily glycoprotein and ciliary G protein-coupled receptors, as well as new transcription factors and signalling molecules. New modes of inheritance for alterations of genes encoding transcription factors have also been described. Finally, actors known to be involved in a very specific phenotype (hypogonadotroph hypogonadism for instance) have been identified in a wider range of phenotypes. These data thus suggest that new mechanisms could explain the low rate of aetiological identification in this heterogeneous group of diseases. Taking into account the fact that several reviews have been published in recent years on classical aetiologies of CPHD such as mutations ofPOU1F1orPROP1, we focused the present overview on the data published in the last 5 years, to provide the reader with an updated review on this rapidly evolving field of knowledge.

scholarly journals 5-Lipoxygenase Pathway, Dendritic Cells, and Adaptive Immunity

2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harizi Hedi ◽  
Gualde Norbert
Keyword(s):  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Adaptive Immunity ◽  
Inflammatory Cells ◽  
Lipid Mediators ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Lipoxygenase Pathway ◽  
Innate And Adaptive Immunity ◽  
Paracrine Signalling ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
G Protein Coupled

5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) pathway is the major source of potent proinflammatory leukotrienes (LTs) issued from the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA), and best known for their roles in the pathogenesis of asthma. These lipid mediators are mainly released from myeloid cells and may act as physiological autocrine and paracrine signalling molecules, and play a central role in regulating the interaction between innate and adaptive immunity. The biological actions of LTs including their immunoregulatory and proinflammatory effects are mediated through extracellular specific G-protein-coupled receptors. Despite their role in inflammatory cells, such as neutrophils and macrophages, LTs may have important effects on dendritic cells (DC)-mediated adaptive immunity. Several lines of evidence show that DC not only are important source of LTs, but also become targets of their actions by producing other lipid mediators and proinflammatory molecules. This review focuses on advances in 5-LO pathway biology, the production of LTs from DC and their role on various cells of immune system and in adaptive immunity.

scholarly journals Autophosphorylation of JAK2 on Tyrosines 221 and 570 Regulates Its Activity

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 4955-4967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Argetsinger ◽  
Jean-Louis K. Kouadio ◽  
Hanno Steen ◽  
Allan Stensballe ◽  
Ole N. Jensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Growth Hormone ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Peptide Mapping ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Ligand Activation ◽  
G Protein Coupled ◽  
Regulatory Sites

ABSTRACT The tyrosine kinase JAK2 is a key signaling protein for at least 20 receptors in the cytokine/hematopoietin receptor superfamily and is a component of signaling by insulin receptor and several G-protein-coupled receptors. However, there is only limited knowledge of the physical structure of JAK2 or which of the 49 tyrosines in JAK2 are autophosphorylated. In this study, mass spectrometry and two-dimensional peptide mapping were used to determine that tyrosines 221, 570, and 1007 in JAK2 are autophosphorylated. Phosphorylation of tyrosine 570 is particularly robust. In response to growth hormone, JAK2 was rapidly and transiently phosphorylated at tyrosines 221 and 570, returning to basal levels by 60 min. Analysis of the sequences surrounding tyrosines 221 and 570 in JAK2 and tyrosines in other proteins that are phosphorylated in response to ligands that activate JAK2 suggests that the YXX[L/I/V] motif is one of the motifs recognized by JAK2. Experiments using JAK2 with tyrosines 221 and 570 mutated to phenylalanine suggest that tyrosines 221 and 570 in JAK2 may serve as regulatory sites in JAK2, with phosphorylation of tyrosine 221 increasing kinase activity and phosphorylation of tyrosine 570 decreasing kinase activity and thereby contributing to rapid termination of ligand activation of JAK2.

Mass-spectrometry-based method for screening of new peptide ligands for G-protein-coupled receptors

2015 ◽  
Vol 407 (18) ◽  
pp. 5299-5307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila T. Cologna ◽  
Nicolas Gilles ◽  
Julien Echterbille ◽  
Michel Degueldre ◽  
Denis Servent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
G Protein ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Peptide Ligands ◽  
G Protein Coupled
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