PUBLICATION
Noncanonical function of Threonyl-tRNA synthetase regulates Vascular Development in Zebrafish
- Authors
- Cao, Z., Wang, H., Mao, X., Luo, L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160320-9
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 473(1): 67-72 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Luo, Lingfei
- Keywords
- Threonyl-tRNA synthetase, Vegf, angiogenesis, tars, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
-
- Blood Vessels/physiology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Mutation
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
- Mutation, Missense
- Chromosome Mapping
- Neovascularization, Physiologic*
- Genotype
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology*
- Morphogenesis
- Signal Transduction
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/physiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Threonine-tRNA Ligase/genetics*
- Threonine-tRNA Ligase/physiology*
- Cerebrovascular Circulation/physiology
- Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- Conserved Sequence
- PubMed
- 26993167 Full text @ Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.
Citation
Cao, Z., Wang, H., Mao, X., Luo, L. (2016) Noncanonical function of Threonyl-tRNA synthetase regulates Vascular Development in Zebrafish. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 473(1):67-72.
Abstract
The canonical functions of Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARSs) are indispensable for protein synthesis. However, recent evidence indicates that some AARSs possess additional biological functions (noncanonical functions) related to immune responses and vascular development. Here, we identified a zebrafish cq16 mutant presenting the disorganized vessels with abnormal branching of the established intersegmental vessels (ISVs) as well as aberrant patterning of the brain vascular network after 50 hours post fertilization. The cq16 mutant gene is responsible for encoding threonyl-tRNA synthetase (tars) with a missense mutation. The abnormal branching of ISVs was caused by the increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor A (vegfa) in tars(cq16) mutant. Inhibition of Vegf signaling suppresses the abnormal vascular branching observed in tars(cq16) mutant. Furthermore, injection of human TARS mRNA potently reduced the vascular aberrant branching in tars(cq16) mutant, indicating a conserved function of tars in regulating angiogenesis between zebrafish and human. Therefore, we conclude that noncanonical function of tars regulates vascular development presumably by modulating the expression of vegfa.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping