Czech Centre for Phenogenomics and Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, Vestec, Czech Republic.
Program in Craniofacial Biology and Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sci Rep. 2023 Jan 26;13(1):1471. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28388-4.
Highly specialized enamel matrix proteins (EMPs) are predominantly expressed in odontogenic tissues and diverged from common ancestral gene. They are crucial for the maturation of enamel and its extreme complexity in multiple independent lineages. However, divergence of EMPs occured already before the true enamel evolved and their conservancy in toothless species suggests that non-canonical functions are still under natural selection. To elucidate this hypothesis, we carried out an unbiased, comprehensive phenotyping and employed data from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium to show functional pleiotropy of amelogenin, ameloblastin, amelotin, and enamelin, genes, i.e. in sensory function, skeletal morphology, cardiovascular function, metabolism, immune system screen, behavior, reproduction, and respiratory function. Mice in all KO mutant lines, i.e. amelogenin KO, ameloblastin KO, amelotin KO, and enamelin KO, as well as mice from the lineage with monomeric form of ameloblastin were affected in multiple physiological systems. Evolutionary conserved motifs and functional pleiotropy support the hypothesis of role of EMPs as general physiological regulators. These findings illustrate how their non-canonical function can still effect the fitness of modern species by an example of influence of amelogenin and ameloblastin on the bone physiology.
高度专业化的釉基质蛋白(EMPs)主要在牙源性组织中表达,并从共同的祖先基因中分化出来。它们对釉质的成熟及其在多个独立谱系中的极端复杂性至关重要。然而,EMP 的分化发生在真正的釉质进化之前,而无牙物种中它们的保守性表明,非典型功能仍在自然选择的作用下。为了阐明这一假说,我们进行了一项无偏的、全面的表型分析,并利用国际小鼠表型联盟的数据表明,釉原蛋白、釉蛋白、釉基质蛋白和釉蛋白基因具有功能多样性,即在感觉功能、骨骼形态、心血管功能、代谢、免疫系统筛选、行为、生殖和呼吸功能方面。在所有 KO 突变系(即釉原蛋白 KO、釉蛋白 KO、釉基质蛋白 KO 和釉蛋白 KO)以及具有单体形式釉蛋白的系小鼠中,多个生理系统受到影响。进化保守的基序和功能多样性支持了 EMP 作为一般生理调节剂的假说。这些发现通过釉原蛋白和釉蛋白对骨生理学的影响,说明了它们的非典型功能如何仍然通过影响现代物种的适应性来发挥作用。
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