Role of Pax Genes in Eye Evolution
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PaxB from Tripedalia cystophora, a cubomedusan jellyfish possessing complex eyes (ocelli), was characterized. PaxB, the only Pax gene found in this cnidarian, is expressed in the larva, retina, lens, and statocyst. PaxB contains a Pax2/5/8-type paired domain and octapeptide, but a Pax6 prd-type homeodomain. Pax2/5/8-like properties of PaxB include a DNA binding specificity of the paired domain, activation and inhibitory domains, and the ability to rescue spa(pol), a Drosophila Pax2 eye mutant. Like Pax6, PaxB activates jellyfish crystallin and Drosophila rhodopsin rh6 promoters and induces small ectopic eyes in Drosophila. Pax6 has been considered a "master" control gene for eye development. Our data suggest that the ancestor of jellyfish PaxB, a PaxB-like protein, was the primordial Pax protein in eye evolution and that Pax6-like genes evolved in triploblasts after separation from Cnidaria, raising the possibility that cnidarian and sophisticated triploblastic eyes arose independently.
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PaxB has a conserved role in neuronal development.
“The findings that jellyfish PaxB gene is involved in the eye development of the cubomedusa Tripedalia cystophora and that PaxB can rescue a Drosophila eye mutant [78] suggests a conserved role of PaxB in neuronal development.”
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- Authors
- Kozmik, Z., Daube, M., Frei, E., Norman, B., Kos, L., Dishaw, L. J., Noll, M., & Piatigorsky, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Florida International University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Piatigorsky, Joram
- Venue
- Developmental Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-11
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 5
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- 773-785
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- 1534-5807 (ISSN-L)
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- W1987125665
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- en
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- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Ocular Disorders and Treatments
- Keywords
- Pax genes, eye evolution, Tripedalia cystophora, ocelli, Pax6, homeodomain, paired domain, cnidarian evolution, statocyst, crystallins, rhodopsin, Drosophila
- MeSH terms
- PAX6 Transcription Factor, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Binding Sites, Cnidaria, Crystallins, DNA-Binding Proteins, Drosophila melanogaster, Biological Evolution, Eye, Eye Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Ocular Physiological Phenomena, Phenotype, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Proteins, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Repressor Proteins, Rhodopsin, Transcription Factors, Transcriptional Activation, Sequence Alignment, Genes, Reporter, Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate, Homeodomain Proteins, Drosophila Proteins, Animals, Genetically Modified, Paired Box Transcription Factors, PAX2 Transcription Factor
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