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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
1998 Nov 10;9523:13442-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13442.
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Retinoic acid X receptor in the diploblast, Tripedalia cystophora.
Kostrouch Z
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Kostrouchova M
,
Love W
,
Jannini E
,
Piatigorsky J
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Rall JE
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Nuclear hormone receptors comprise a characteristic family of transcription factors found in vertebrates, insects and nematodes. Here we show by cDNA and gene cloning that a Cnidarian, Tripedalia cystophora, possesses a retinoid receptor (jRXR) with remarkable homology to vertebrate retinoic acid X receptors (RXRs). Like vertebrate RXRs, jRXR binds 9-cis retinoic acid (Kd = 4 x 10(-10) M) and binds to the DNA sequence, PuGGTCA as a monomer in vitro. jRXR also heterodimerizes with Xenopus TR beta on a thyroid responsive element of a direct repeat separated by 4 bp. A jRXR binding half-site capable of interacting with (His6)jRXR fusion protein was identified in the promoters of three T. cystophora crystallin genes that are expressed highly in the eyelens of this jellyfish. Because crystallin gene expression is regulated by retionoid signaling in vertebrates, the jellyfish crystallin genes are candidate in vivo targets for jRXR. Finally, an antibody prepared against (His6)jRXR showed that full-length jRXR is expressed at all developmental stages of T. cystophora except the ephydra, where a smaller form replaces is. These data show that Cnidaria, a diploblastic phylum ancestral to the triploblastic invertebrate and subsequent vertebrate lineages, already have an RXR suggesting that RXR is an early component of the regulatory mechanisms of metazoa.
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