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Arch Biochem Biophys ; 591: 43-56, 2016 Feb 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26705761

RESUMO

MEF2C is a crucial transcription factor for cranial neural crest cells development. An abnormal expression of this protein leads to severe abnormalities in craniofacial features. Recently, a human disease (MRD20) was described as a consequence of MEF2C haploinsufficiency. These patients show severe developmental delay, intellectual disability and dysmorphic features. Zebrafish presents two MEF2C orthologues, mef2ca and mef2cb. In this study we demonstrate a highly conserved pattern of chromosome localization for MEF2C between human and zebrafish, a similar protein sequence and tissue expression profile. We have focused our functional analysis on the zebrafish orthologue mef2cb. We identified three new exons through 5' RACE and described two new transcriptional start sites (TSS). These alternative TSS reflect the occurrence of two alternative promoters differentially regulated by nuclear factors related to craniofacial or neuronal development such as Sox9b, Sox10 and Runx2. We also predict that mef2cb gene may be post transcriptionally regulated by analysing the structure of its 5' UTR region, conserved throughout evolution. Our study provides new insights in MEF2C conservation and provides the first evidence of mef2cb regulation by both transcriptional and post transcriptional mechanisms, thus contributing to validate zebrafish as a good model for future studies concerning MEF2C dependent pathologies.


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Evolução Molecular , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/genética , Fatores de Transcrição MEF2/química , Fatores de Transcrição MEF2/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Peixe-Zebra/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Sequência Conservada/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular
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Biochim Biophys Acta ; 1839(7): 559-70, 2014 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24844180

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In mammals, an array of MEF2C proteins is generated by alternative splicing (AS), yet specific functions have not been ascribed to each isoform. Teleost fish possess two MEF2C paralogues, mef2ca and mef2cb. In zebrafish, the Mef2cs function to promote cardiomyogenic differentiation and myofibrillogenesis in nascent skeletal myofibers. We found that zebrafish mef2ca and mef2cb are alternatively spliced in the coding exons 4-6 region and these splice variants differ in their biological activity. Of the two, mef2ca is more abundantly expressed in developing skeletal muscle, its activity is tuned through zebrafish development by AS. By 24hpf, we found the prevalent expression of the highly active full length protein in differentiated muscle in the somites. The splicing isoform of mef2ca that lacks exon 5 (mef2ca 4-6), encodes a protein that has 50% lower transcriptional activity, and is found mainly earlier in development, before muscle differentiation. mef2ca transcripts including exon 5 (mef2ca 4-5-6) are present early in the embryo. Over-expression of this isoform alters the expression of genes involved in early dorso-ventral patterning of the embryo such as chordin, nodal related 1 and goosecoid, and induces severe developmental defects. AS of mef2cb generates a long splicing isoform in the exon 5 region (Mef2cbL) that predominates during somitogenesis. Mef2cbL contains an evolutionarily conserved domain derived from exonization of a fragment of intron 5, which confers the ability to induce ectopic muscle in mesoderm upon over-expression of the protein. Taken together, the data show that AS is a significant regulator of Mef2c activity.


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Diferenciação Celular/genética , Fatores de Transcrição MEF2/genética , Desenvolvimento Muscular/genética , Proteínas Musculares/genética , Proteínas de Peixe-Zebra/genética , Processamento Alternativo/genética , Animais , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Glicoproteínas/biossíntese , Glicoproteínas/genética , Proteína Goosecoid/biossíntese , Proteína Goosecoid/genética , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/biossíntese , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/genética , Ligantes da Sinalização Nodal/biossíntese , Ligantes da Sinalização Nodal/genética , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Splicing de RNA/genética , Peixe-Zebra/genética , Peixe-Zebra/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Proteínas de Peixe-Zebra/biossíntese
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