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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2022

Rethinking Sesquiterpenoids: A Widespread Hormone in Animals.

Wai Lok So, Zhenpeng Kai, Zhe Qu, William G Bendena, Jerome H L Hui

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The embryonic role of juvenile hormone in the firebrat,bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Wai Lok SoSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Zhenpeng KaiSchool of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4861-942X
Zhe QuSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
William G BendenaDepartment of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3874-4681
Jerome H L HuiSchool of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1355-8495
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HKQueen's University · CAShanghai Institute of Technology · CN

Funding

Hong Kong Research Grant Council Collaborative Research Fund (C4015-20EF) and General Research Fund (14100420)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sesquiterpenoid hormone juvenile hormone (JH) controls development, reproduction, and metamorphosis in insects, and has long been thought to be confined to the Insecta. While it remains true that juvenile hormone is specifically synthesized in insects, other types or forms of sesquiterpenoids have also been discovered in distantly related animals, such as the jellyfish. Here, we combine the latest literature and annotate the sesquiterpenoid biosynthetic pathway genes in different animal genomes. We hypothesize that the sesquiterpenoid hormonal system is an ancestral system established in an animal ancestor and remains widespread in many animals. Different animal lineages have adapted different enzymatic routes from a common pathway, with cnidarians producing farnesoic acid (FA); non-insect protostomes and non-vertebrate deuterostomes such as cephalochordate and echinoderm synthesizing FA and methyl farnesoate (MF); and insects producing FA, MF, and JH. Our hypothesis revolutionizes the current view on the sesquiterpenoids in the metazoans, and forms a foundation for a re-investigation of the roles of this important and yet neglected type of hormone in different animals.

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Juvenile HormonesSesquiterpenesAnimalsBiosynthetic PathwaysInsectaMetamorphosis, BiologicalJuvenile HormonesSesquiterpenescnidariandeuterostomeevolutionfarnesoic acidinsectjuvenile hormonemetazoanmethyl farnesoateprotostome

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PMID35682678
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