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ArticleFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology2007

Duplicated gelsolin family genes in zebrafish: a novel scinderin-like gene (scinla) encodes the major corneal crystallin.

Sujuan Jia, Marina Omelchenko, Donita Garland, Vasilis Vasiliou, Jyotshnabala Kanungo, Michael Spencer, Yuri Wolf, Eugene Koonin, Joram Piatigorsky

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Article in FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Ocular surface development and gene expression.Journal of ophthalmology · 2013
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  11. Differential expression patterns and developmental roles of duplicated scinderin-like genes in zebrafish.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2009
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  12. The transparent lens and cornea in the mouse and zebra fish eye.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2008
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sujuan JiaLaboratory of Molecular and Development Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 7 Memorial Dr., Bldg. 7, Rm. 100, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Marina Omelchenko
Donita Garland
Vasilis Vasiliou
Jyotshnabala Kanungo
Michael Spencer
Yuri Wolf
Eugene Koonin
Joram Piatigorsky
Development Services Group (United States) · USNational Institutes of Health · USNational Eye Institute · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CORNEAZ01EY000259 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI PIATIGORSKY, JORAM · 1990 to 2008
$4.3M
Role and Molecular Mechanisms of Corneal Aldehyde DehydrogenaseR01EY011490 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI VASILIOU, VASILIS · 2004 to 2013
$4.0M
CRYSTALLIN GENES--STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION, EXPRESSION, AND EVOLUTIONZ01EY000126 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI PIATIGORSKY, JORAM · 1985 to 2008
$2.2M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND CORNEAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASER29EY011490 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI VASILIOU, VASILIS · 1998 to 2002
$308k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 EY000126NEI NIH HHS EY11490NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011490
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have previously identified a gelsolin-like protein (C/L-gelsolin) as a corneal crystallin in zebrafish. Here we show by phylogenetic analysis that there are at least six genes encoding gelsolin-like proteins based on their gelsolin domains in zebrafish: gsna and gsnb group with the vertebrate gelsolin gene, scina and scinb group with the scinderin (adseverin) gene, and scinla (C/L-gelsolin) and scinlb are novel scinderin-like genes. RT-PCR showed that scinla, scinlb, and gsnb are preferentially expressed in the adult cornea whereas gsna is expressed to a similar extent in cornea, lens, brain, and heart; scina and scinb expression were detectable only in whole zebrafish and not in these adult tissues. Quantitative RT-PCR and 2-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by MALDI/TOF mass spectroscopy confirmed high expression of beta-actin and scinla, moderate expression of scinlb, and very low expression of gsna and gsnb in the cornea. Finally, transgenic zebrafish carrying a green fluorescent protein reporter transgene driven by a 4 kb scinla promoter fragment showed expression in the cornea, snout, dorsal fin, and tail fin of 3-day-old zebrafish larvae. Our data suggest that scinla and scinlb are diverged paralogs of the vertebrate scinderin gene and show that scinla encodes the zebrafish corneal crystallin previously called C/L-gelsolin.

Indexed as

Gene DuplicationAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedCorneaCrystallinsGelsolinHumansMicroinjectionsMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyPhylogenyPromoter Regions, GeneticReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationTissue DistributionZebrafishCrystallinsGelsolinscinderinScinla protein, zebrafishZebrafish Proteins

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PMID17548429
PMCPMC6007973
OpenAlexW2143169191

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