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ArticleDevelopmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2020

PRPS polymerization influences lens fiber organization in zebrafish.

Kyle Begovich, Deborah Yelon, James E Wilhelm

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Article in Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kyle BegovichHoward Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Summer Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
Deborah YelonDivision of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
James E WilhelmHoward Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Summer Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
University of California, San Diego · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

GENETIC MECHANISMS AND REGULATIONT32GM007240 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HAMPTON, RANDOLPH Y. · 1985 to 2019
$23.8M
Genetic Regulation of Outflow Tract Formation in ZebrafishR01HL108599 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YELON, DEBORAH · 2011 to 2019
$3.4M
Modulating Morphogenesis: Genetic Regulation of Cardiac Cell Movement in ZebrafishR01HL133166 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YELON, DEBORAH · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL108599NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL133166NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007240
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe self-assembly of metabolic enzymes into filaments or foci highlights an intriguing mechanism for the regulation of metabolic activity. Recently, we identified the conserved polymerization of phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase (PRPS), which catalyzes the first step in purine nucleotide synthesis, in yeast and cultured mammalian cells. While previous work has revealed that loss of PRPS activity regulates retinal development in zebrafish, the extent to which PRPS filament formation affects tissue development remains unknown.

resultsBy generating novel alleles in the zebrafish PRPS paralogs, prps1a and prps1b, we gained new insight into the role of PRPS filaments during eye development. We found that mutations in prps1a alone are sufficient to generate abnormally small eyes along with defects in head size, pigmentation, and swim bladder inflation. Furthermore, a loss-of-function mutation that truncates the Prps1a protein resulted in the failure of PRPS filament assembly. Lastly, in mutants that fail to assemble PRPS filaments, we observed disorganization of the actin network in the lens fibers.

conclusionsThe truncation of Prps1a blocked PRPS filament formation and resulted in a disorganized lens fiber actin network. Altogether, these findings highlight a potential role for PRPS filaments during lens fiber organization in zebrafish.

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ActinsAir SacsAllelesAnimalsEyeGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenotypeLens, CrystallineMicroscopy, FluorescenceMutationPigmentationPolymerizationRetinaRetinal Pigment EpitheliumRibose-Phosphate PyrophosphokinaseZebrafishActinsprps1a protein, zebrafishprps1b protein, zebrafishRibose-Phosphate PyrophosphokinaseZebrafish Proteinsactinlens fibermetabolic enzyme filamentsPRPSretina

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PMID32243675
PMCPMC8370018
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