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Chemical transmission in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: A genomic perspective
Abstract
The sequencing of the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) genome provides opportunities to investigate the function and evolution of genes associated with chemical neurotransmission and hormonal signaling. This is of particular interest because sea anemones are anthozoans, the phylogenetically basal cnidarians least changed from the common ancestors of cnidarians and bilaterian animals, and because cnidarians are considered the most basal metazoans possessing a nervous system. This analysis of the genome has yielded 20 orthologues of enzymes and nicotinic receptors associated with cholinergic function, an even larger number of genes encoding enzymes, receptors and transporters for glutamatergic (28) and GABAergic (34) transmission, and two orthologues of purinergic receptors. Numerous genes encoding enzymes (14), receptors (60) and transporters (5) for aminergic transmission were identified, along with four adenosine-like receptors and one nitric oxide synthase. Diverse neuropeptide and hormone families are also represented, mostly with genes encoding prepropeptides and receptors related to varying closeness to RFamide (17) and tachykinin (14), but also galanin (8), gonadotropin-releasing hormones and vasopressin/oxytocin (5), melanocortins (11), insulin-like peptides (5), glycoprotein hormones (7), and uniquely cnidarian peptide families (44). Surprisingly, no muscarinic acetylcholine receptors were identified and a large number of melatonin-related, but not serotonin, orthologues were found. Phylogenetic tree construction and inspection of multiple sequence alignments reveal how evolutionarily and functionally distant chemical transmitter-related proteins are from those of higher metazoans.
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“Also, one has to take into account the discrepancy of bioinformatic data with the empirical data (lack of serotonin orthologues in reference [37], with serotonin immunostaining in reference [26] in Nematostella).”
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“Bioinformatic analysis of the Nematostella genome has shown that a large number of genes associated with chemical neurotransmission are present [37].”
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“In Nematostella the diversity of neuropeptides is matched by over 80 putative GPCRs for neuropeptides [52].”
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- Authors
- Anctil, M.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Anctil, Michel
- Venue
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D Genomics and Proteomics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 268-289
- ISSN
- 1744-117X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2143838640
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 183
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 3.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D Genomics and Proteomics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- Nematostella vectensis, chemical neurotransmission, cnidarian nervous system, Anthozoa, cholinergic neurotransmission, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, glutamatergic neurotransmission, GABAergic neurotransmission, purinergic receptors, neuropeptides, hormones, RFamide, tachykinins, galanin, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, melanocortin peptides, insulin-like peptides, glycoprotein hormones, melatonin, serotonin, genome annotation
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Hormones, Nervous System, Neuropeptides, Sea Anemones, Genome, Neurotransmitter Agents
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