Neuropeptides, Peptide Hormones, and Their Receptors of a Tunicate, Ciona intestinalis. 2019

Honoo Satake, and Shin Matsubara, and Akira Shiraishi, and Tatsuya Yamamoto, and Tomohiro Osugi, and Tsubasa Sakai, and Tsuyoshi Kawada
Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan. satake@sunbor.or.jp.

The critical phylogenetic position of the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, as the closest relative of vertebrates, suggested its potential applicability as a model organism in a wide variety of biological events including the nervous, neuroendocrine, and endocrine regulation. To date, approximately 40 neuropeptides and/or peptide hormones and several cognate receptors have been identified. These peptides are categorized into two types: (1) orthologs of vertebrate peptides, such as cholecystokinin, GnRH, tachykinin, vasopressin, and calcitonin, and (2) novel family peptides such as LF peptides and YFL/V peptides. Ciona GnRH receptors (Ci-GnRHR) were found to be multiplicated in the Ciona-specific lineages and to form unique heterodimers between Ci-GnRHR1 and R4 and between Ci-GnRHR2 and R4, leading to fine-tuning of the generation of second messengers. Furthermore, Ciona tachykinin was shown to regulate a novel protease-associated follicle growth pathway. These findings will pave the way for the exploration of both conserved and diversified endocrine, neuroendocrine, and nervous systems in the evolutionary lineage of invertebrate deuterostomes and/or chordates. In this chapter, we provide an overview of primary sequences, functions, and evolutionary aspects of neuropeptides, peptide hormones, and their receptors in C. intestinalis.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009479 Neuropeptides Peptides released by NEURONS as intercellular messengers. Many neuropeptides are also hormones released by non-neuronal cells. Neuropeptide
D010802 Phylogeny The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their genetic makeup. Community Phylogenetics,Molecular Phylogenetics,Phylogenetic Analyses,Phylogenetic Analysis,Phylogenetic Clustering,Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis,Phylogenetic Comparative Methods,Phylogenetic Distance,Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares,Phylogenetic Groups,Phylogenetic Incongruence,Phylogenetic Inference,Phylogenetic Networks,Phylogenetic Reconstruction,Phylogenetic Relatedness,Phylogenetic Relationships,Phylogenetic Signal,Phylogenetic Structure,Phylogenetic Tree,Phylogenetic Trees,Phylogenomics,Analyse, Phylogenetic,Analysis, Phylogenetic,Analysis, Phylogenetic Comparative,Clustering, Phylogenetic,Community Phylogenetic,Comparative Analysis, Phylogenetic,Comparative Method, Phylogenetic,Distance, Phylogenetic,Group, Phylogenetic,Incongruence, Phylogenetic,Inference, Phylogenetic,Method, Phylogenetic Comparative,Molecular Phylogenetic,Network, Phylogenetic,Phylogenetic Analyse,Phylogenetic Clusterings,Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses,Phylogenetic Comparative Method,Phylogenetic Distances,Phylogenetic Group,Phylogenetic Incongruences,Phylogenetic Inferences,Phylogenetic Network,Phylogenetic Reconstructions,Phylogenetic Relatednesses,Phylogenetic Relationship,Phylogenetic Signals,Phylogenetic Structures,Phylogenetic, Community,Phylogenetic, Molecular,Phylogenies,Phylogenomic,Reconstruction, Phylogenetic,Relatedness, Phylogenetic,Relationship, Phylogenetic,Signal, Phylogenetic,Structure, Phylogenetic,Tree, Phylogenetic
D002938 Ciona intestinalis Vase or tube shaped TUNICATES with a cosmopolitan distribution. Ciona robusta,Vase Tunicate,Yellow Sea Squirt,Sea Squirt, Yellow,Sea Squirts, Yellow,Vase Tunicates,Yellow Sea Squirts
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D018000 Receptors, Peptide Cell surface receptors that bind peptide messengers with high affinity and regulate intracellular signals which influence the behavior of cells. Peptide Hormone Receptors,Peptide Receptors,Peptide Hormone Receptor,Peptide Receptor,Receptors, Peptide Hormones,Receptors, Peptides,Hormone Receptor, Peptide,Hormone Receptors, Peptide,Hormones Receptors, Peptide,Peptide Hormones Receptors,Peptides Receptors,Receptor, Peptide,Receptor, Peptide Hormone,Receptors, Peptide Hormone
D036361 Peptide Hormones Hormones synthesized from amino acids. They are distinguished from INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS in that their actions are systemic. Hormones, Peptide,Peptide Hormone,Polypeptide Hormone,Polypeptide Hormones,Hormone, Peptide,Hormone, Polypeptide,Hormones, Polypeptide

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