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Hagen JFD, Roberts NS, Johnston RJ. The evolutionary history and spectral tuning of vertebrate visual opsins. Dev Biol 2023; 493:40-66. [PMID: 36370769 PMCID: PMC9729497 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Many animals depend on the sense of vision for survival. In eumetazoans, vision requires specialized, light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors. Light reaches the photoreceptors and triggers the excitation of light-detecting proteins called opsins. Here, we describe the story of visual opsin evolution from the ancestral bilaterian to the extant vertebrate lineages. We explain the mechanisms determining color vision of extant vertebrates, focusing on opsin gene losses, duplications, and the expression regulation of vertebrate opsins. We describe the sequence variation both within and between species that has tweaked the sensitivities of opsin proteins towards different wavelengths of light. We provide an extensive resource of wavelength sensitivities and mutations that have diverged light sensitivity in many vertebrate species and predict how these mutations were accumulated in each lineage based on parsimony. We suggest possible natural and sexual selection mechanisms underlying these spectral differences. Understanding how molecular changes allow for functional adaptation of animals to different environments is a major goal in the field, and therefore identifying mutations affecting vision and their relationship to photic selection pressures is imperative. The goal of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of opsin evolution in vertebrates.
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- Joanna F D Hagen
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
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Sakurai K. Physiological Characteristics of Photoreceptors in the Lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum. Zoolog Sci 2019; 34:326-330. [PMID: 28770673 DOI: 10.2108/zs170044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lampreys are among the most basal vertebrates, and similar to jawed vertebrates, they have two types of photoreceptors: long photoreceptors (LP; putative cones) and short photoreceptors (SP; putative rods). It is intriguing to examine the physiological properties of vision in these animals. Although there is an accumulating body of histological and biochemical studies of photoreceptors of the lamprey Lethenteron japonicum, many physiological characteristics of this species have not been described. In the present study, single-cell recordings of photoreceptors in the upstream migrant lamprey were performed to investigate the physiological properties of SP and LP of the lamprey Lethenteron japonicum. It was found that the sensitivity in LP at 560 nm was 2000 photons µm-2, whereas that in SP at 520 nm was 67 photons µm-2, which is approximately a 30-fold difference. Moreover, the response kinetics of LP was remarkably faster than those of SP, which is consistent with previous studies of other Northern hemisphere lampreys. Unexpectedly, the amplitude of single-photon response in the lamprey SP was approximately 0.12 pA, less than 1% of the circulating current. The small amplitude in lamprey SP may degrade the ability to detect single photons of this species. The spectral sensitivity analysis revealed that approximately 30% of all the chromophores are composed of A2 retinal, which may account for the relatively low amplitude of single-photon response in SP.
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- Keisuke Sakurai
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Morshedian A, Toomey MB, Pollock GE, Frederiksen R, Enright JM, McCormick SD, Cornwall MC, Fain GL, Corbo JC. Cambrian origin of the CYP27C1-mediated vitamin A 1-to-A 2 switch, a key mechanism of vertebrate sensory plasticity. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2017; 4:170362. [PMID: 28791166 PMCID: PMC5541561 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The spectral composition of ambient light varies across both space and time. Many species of jawed vertebrates adapt to this variation by tuning the sensitivity of their photoreceptors via the expression of CYP27C1, an enzyme that converts vitamin A1 into vitamin A2, thereby shifting the ratio of vitamin A1-based rhodopsin to red-shifted vitamin A2-based porphyropsin in the eye. Here, we show that the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), a jawless vertebrate that diverged from jawed vertebrates during the Cambrian period (approx. 500 Ma), dynamically shifts its photoreceptor spectral sensitivity via vitamin A1-to-A2 chromophore exchange as it transitions between photically divergent aquatic habitats. We further show that this shift correlates with high-level expression of the lamprey orthologue of CYP27C1, specifically in the retinal pigment epithelium as in jawed vertebrates. Our results suggest that the CYP27C1-mediated vitamin A1-to-A2 switch is an evolutionarily ancient mechanism of sensory plasticity that appeared not long after the origin of vertebrates.
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- Ala Morshedian
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory, US Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, Turners Falls, MA 01370, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Authors for correspondence: Gordon L. Fain e-mail:
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Authors for correspondence: Joseph C. Corbo e-mail:
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Nivison-Smith L, Collin SP, Zhu Y, Ready S, Acosta ML, Hunt DM, Potter IC, Kalloniatis M. Retinal amino acid neurochemistry of the southern hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis. PLoS One 2013; 8:e58406. [PMID: 23516473 PMCID: PMC3596384 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2012] [Accepted: 02/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Lampreys are one of the two surviving groups of the agnathan (jawless) stages in vertebrate evolution and are thus ideal candidates for elucidating the evolution of visual systems. This study investigated the retinal amino acid neurochemistry of the southern hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis during the downstream migration of the young, recently-metamorphosed juveniles to the sea and during the upstream migration of the fully-grown and sexually-maturing adults to their spawning areas. Glutamate and taurine were distributed throughout the retina, whilst GABA and glycine were confined to neurons of the inner retina matching patterns seen in most other vertebrates. Glutamine and aspartate immunoreactivity was closely matched to Müller cell morphology. Between the migratory phases, few differences were observed in the distribution of major neurotransmitters i.e. glutamate, GABA and glycine, but changes in amino acids associated with retinal metabolism i.e. glutamine and aspartate, were evident. Taurine immunoreactivity was mostly conserved between migrant stages, consistent with its role in primary cell functions such as osmoregulation. Further investigation of glutamate signalling using the probe agmatine (AGB) to map cation channel permeability revealed entry of AGB into photoreceptors and horizontal cells followed by accumulation in inner retinal neurons. Similarities in AGB profiles between upstream and downstream migrant of G. australis confirmed the conservation of glutamate neurotransmission. Finally, calcium binding proteins, calbindin and calretinin were localized to the inner retina whilst recoverin was localized to photoreceptors. Overall, conservation of major amino acid neurotransmitters and calcium-associated proteins in the lamprey retina confirms these elements as essential features of the vertebrate visual system. On the other hand, metabolic elements of the retina such as neurotransmitter precursor amino acids and Müller cells are more sensitive to environmental changes associated with migration.
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- Lisa Nivison-Smith
- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Animal Biology and the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Animal Biology and the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Centre for Eye Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Collin SP, Davies WL, Hart NS, Hunt DM. The evolution of early vertebrate photoreceptors. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2009; 364:2925-40. [PMID: 19720654 PMCID: PMC2781863 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Meeting the challenge of sampling an ancient aquatic landscape by the early vertebrates was crucial to their survival and would establish a retinal bauplan to be used by all subsequent vertebrate descendents. Image-forming eyes were under tremendous selection pressure and the ability to identify suitable prey and detect potential predators was thought to be one of the major drivers of speciation in the Early Cambrian. Based on the fossil record, we know that hagfishes, lampreys, holocephalans, elasmobranchs and lungfishes occupy critical stages in vertebrate evolution, having remained relatively unchanged over hundreds of millions of years. Now using extant representatives of these 'living fossils', we are able to piece together the evolution of vertebrate photoreception. While photoreception in hagfishes appears to be based on light detection and controlling circadian rhythms, rather than image formation, the photoreceptors of lampreys fall into five distinct classes and represent a critical stage in the dichotomy of rods and cones. At least four types of retinal cones sample the visual environment in lampreys mediating photopic (and potentially colour) vision, a sampling strategy retained by lungfishes, some modern teleosts, reptiles and birds. Trichromacy is retained in cartilaginous fishes (at least in batoids and holocephalans), where it is predicted that true scotopic (dim light) vision evolved in the common ancestor of all living gnathostomes. The capacity to discriminate colour and balance the tradeoff between resolution and sensitivity in the early vertebrates was an important driver of eye evolution, where many of the ocular features evolved were retained as vertebrates progressed on to land.
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- Shaun P Collin
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia.
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Morton RA, Pitt GA. Aspects of visual pigment research. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 32:97-171. [PMID: 4892505 DOI: 10.1002/9780470122778.ch4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Temple SE, Plate EM, Ramsden S, Haimberger TJ, Roth WM, Hawryshyn CW. Seasonal cycle in vitamin A1/A2-based visual pigment composition during the life history of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2005; 192:301-13. [PMID: 16292551 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0068-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2005] [Revised: 09/27/2005] [Accepted: 10/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Microspectrophotometry of rod photoreceptors was used to follow variations in visual pigment vitamin A1/A2 ratio at various life history stages in coho salmon. Coho parr shifted their A1/A2 ratio seasonally with A2 increasing during winter and decreasing in summer. The cyclical pattern was statistically examined by a least-squares cosine model, fit to the 12-month data sets collected from different populations. A1/A2 ratio varied with temperature and day length. In 1+ (>12 month old) parr the A2 to A1 shift in spring coincided with smoltification, a metamorphic transition preceding seaward migration in salmonids. The coincidence of the shift from A2 to A1 with both the spring increase in temperature and day length, and with the timing of seaward migration presented a challenge for interpretation. Our data show a shift in A1/A2 ratio correlated with season, in both 0+ (<12 months old) coho parr that remained in fresh water for another year and in oceanic juvenile coho. These findings support the hypothesis that the A1/A2 pigment pair system in coho is an adaptation to seasonal variations in environmental variables rather than to a change associated with migration or metamorphosis.
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- S E Temple
- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Constitutive "light" adaptation in rods from G90D rhodopsin: a mechanism for human congenital nightblindness without rod cell loss. J Neurosci 2001. [PMID: 11466416 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-15-05449.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A dominant form of human congenital nightblindness is caused by a gly90-->asp (G90D) mutation in rhodopsin. G90D has been shown to activate the phototransduction cascade in the absence of light in vitro. Such constitutive activity of G90D rhodopsin in vivo would desensitize rod photoreceptors and lead to nightblindness. In contrast, other rhodopsin mutations typically give rise to nightblindness by causing rod cell death. Thus, the proposed desensitization without rod degeneration would be a novel mechanism for this disorder. To explore this possibility, we induced mice to express G90D opsin in their rods and then examined rod function and morphology, after first crossing the transgenic animals with rhodopsin knock-out mice to obtain appropriate levels of opsin expression. The G90D mouse opsin bound the chromophore and formed a bleachable visual pigment with lambda(max) of 492 nm that supported rod photoresponses. (G+/-, R+/-) retinas, heterozygous for both G90D and wild-type (WT) rhodopsin, possessed normal numbers of photoreceptors and had a normal rhodopsin complement but exhibited considerable loss of rod sensitivity as measured electroretinographically. The rod photoresponses were desensitized, and the response time to peak was faster than in (R+/-) animals. An equivalent desensitization resulted by exposing WT retinas to a background light producing 82 photoisomerizations rod(-1) sec(-1), suggesting that G90D rods in darkness act as if they are partially "light-adapted." Adding a second G90D allele gave (G+/+, R+/-) animals that exhibited a further increase of equivalent background light level but had no rod cell loss by 24 weeks of age. (G+/+, R-/-) retinas that express only the mutant rhodopsin develop normal rod outer segments and show minimal rod cell loss even at 1 year of age. We conclude that G90D is constitutively active in mouse rods in vivo but that it does not cause significant rod degeneration. Instead, G90D desensitizes rods by a process equivalent to light adaptation.
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Sieving PA, Fowler ML, Bush RA, Machida S, Calvert PD, Green DG, Makino CL, McHenry CL. Constitutive "light" adaptation in rods from G90D rhodopsin: a mechanism for human congenital nightblindness without rod cell loss. J Neurosci 2001; 21:5449-60. [PMID: 11466416 PMCID: PMC6762654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023] Open
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A dominant form of human congenital nightblindness is caused by a gly90-->asp (G90D) mutation in rhodopsin. G90D has been shown to activate the phototransduction cascade in the absence of light in vitro. Such constitutive activity of G90D rhodopsin in vivo would desensitize rod photoreceptors and lead to nightblindness. In contrast, other rhodopsin mutations typically give rise to nightblindness by causing rod cell death. Thus, the proposed desensitization without rod degeneration would be a novel mechanism for this disorder. To explore this possibility, we induced mice to express G90D opsin in their rods and then examined rod function and morphology, after first crossing the transgenic animals with rhodopsin knock-out mice to obtain appropriate levels of opsin expression. The G90D mouse opsin bound the chromophore and formed a bleachable visual pigment with lambda(max) of 492 nm that supported rod photoresponses. (G+/-, R+/-) retinas, heterozygous for both G90D and wild-type (WT) rhodopsin, possessed normal numbers of photoreceptors and had a normal rhodopsin complement but exhibited considerable loss of rod sensitivity as measured electroretinographically. The rod photoresponses were desensitized, and the response time to peak was faster than in (R+/-) animals. An equivalent desensitization resulted by exposing WT retinas to a background light producing 82 photoisomerizations rod(-1) sec(-1), suggesting that G90D rods in darkness act as if they are partially "light-adapted." Adding a second G90D allele gave (G+/+, R+/-) animals that exhibited a further increase of equivalent background light level but had no rod cell loss by 24 weeks of age. (G+/+, R-/-) retinas that express only the mutant rhodopsin develop normal rod outer segments and show minimal rod cell loss even at 1 year of age. We conclude that G90D is constitutively active in mouse rods in vivo but that it does not cause significant rod degeneration. Instead, G90D desensitizes rods by a process equivalent to light adaptation.
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- P A Sieving
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.
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Hisatomi O, Ishikawa M, Tonosaki A, Tokunaga F. Characterization of lamprey rhodopsin by isolation from lamprey retina and expression in mammalian cells. Photochem Photobiol 1997; 66:792-5. [PMID: 9421966 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03226.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A visual pigment was extracted from lamprey retina and was expressed in cultured mammalian cells (293S) using a cDNA fragment isolated from lamprey retina. The extracted pigment, a putative lamprey rhodopsin, had an absorption maximum at 503 nm. The recombinant lamprey rhodopsin, reconstituted with 11-cis-retinal, showed an absorption maximum at about 500 nm. Both pigments reacted with an anti-bovine rhodopsin antibody (Rh29), which recognizes the short photoreceptor cells in lamprey retina. Unlike rhodopsins of higher vertebrates, the lamprey rhodopsin bleached gradually in the presence of 100 mM hydroxylamine even in the dark. Our results suggest that, despite its high similarities with other vertebrate rhodopsins, lamprey rhodopsin has a character different from those of higher vertebrates.
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- O Hisatomi
- Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Japan
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Sillman AJ, Sorsky ME, Loew ER. The visual pigments of wild white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). CAN J ZOOL 1995. [DOI: 10.1139/z95-093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The visual pigments of the anadromous white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) taken from relatively saline estuarine water were characterized by means of in situ microspectrophotometry and partial bleaching analysis of a digitonin extract. The three cone pigments (λmax = 605, 539, and ca. 460 nm) and one rod pigment (λmax = 541 nm) of the wild sturgeon are the same as those of cultured sturgeon that spend their entire lives in fresh water. All the visual pigments incorporate a chromophore based on vitamin A2. Unlike other anadromous fishes during the "saline phase," the white sturgeon shows no evidence of the presence of any vitamin A1 based visual pigment in the retina.
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Hisatomi O, Iwasa T, Tokunaga F, Yasui A. Isolation and characterization of lamprey rhodopsin cDNA. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 174:1125-32. [PMID: 1840482 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)91537-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Genomic DNA fragments coding a visual pigment of the lamprey were amplified by polymerase chain reaction, using oligonucleotide mixtures as primers. The complete coding region of the cDNA was obtained by separate amplification of both cDNA ends. The deduced amino acid sequence of the coding region showed 78-82% identity with those of rhodopsins of higher vertebrates, but only 43-47% identity with those of human color pigments. The cloned DNA appears to be the cDNA of a lamprey rhodopsin, which is expressed in the "short" photoreceptor cell.
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- O Hisatomi
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Crescitelli F. The scotopic photoreceptors and their visual pigments of fishes: functions and adaptations. Vision Res 1991; 31:339-48. [PMID: 1843745 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(91)90086-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- F Crescitelli
- Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Rubinson K. The developing visual system and metamorphosis in the lamprey. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1990; 21:1123-35. [PMID: 2258725 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480210715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Metamorphosis of the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, is a true metamorphosis. The larval lamprey is a filter-feeder who dwells in the silt of freshwater streams and the adult is an active predator found in large lakes or the sea. The transformation usually occurs in the fifth or sixth year of life. Enlargement of the eye has been long accepted as a distinctive indication of metamorphosis in the sea lamprey, but it had been thought that this was because eye development in the larva was arrested after the formation of only the small central region. Recent studies indicate that all of the retina begins its development in the larva and that ganglion, amacrine, and horizontal cells differentiate in the peripheral retina of the larva. Retinal development is arrested during the premetamorphic period, to be resumed during metamorphosis. Metamorphic contributions include the differentiation of photoreceptor and bipolar cells. With the early appearance of ganglion cells, retinal pathways to the thalamus and tectum are established in larvae, as is a centripetal pathway. Tectal development spans the larval period but a spurt in tectal growth and differentiation is correlated with the completion of the retinal circuitry late in metamorphosis. The metamorphic changes in retina and tectum complete the functional development of the visual system and provide for the adult lamprey's predatory and reproductive behavior.
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- K Rubinson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University Medical Center, New York
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The visual pigments of hybrid sturgeon (a cross between Acipenser ruthenus (male) and Huso huso (female) have been studied both by the methods of incomplete partial bleaching and HPLC analysis. On the basis of the results obtained the relationship between the structure of opsins and the spectral characteristics of visual pigments is discussed.
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- H Niwa
- Laboratory of Fish Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan
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Among mammals, birds, most reptiles and chondrichthians, only rhodopsins are present. Among agnathans, osteichthians, amphibians and certain freshwater turtles there are species having only porphyropsins or only rhodopsins or, more interestingly, both pigments, either sequentially or together. This latter grouping represents the paired-pigment species. Associated with the presence of paired-pigments is the possibility that the proportions of rhodopsin and porphyropsin may change. Depending on the characteristics of each paired-pigment species, naturally occurring changes in visual pigment ratios are related to migrations in anadromous and catadromous teleosts and anadromous cyclostomes and to seasonal variation in several teleosts. In addition, the visual pigment composition of certain species of teleosts has been altered by the specific effects of light, temperature, diet and hormones. Of two possible mechanisms for altering spectral sensitivity, varying the proportion of rhodopsin and porphyropsin is far more common than utilizing a single chromophore and changing the opsin. In addition to the long established evidence that extractable rod pigment ratios may change during the life cycle or in response to specific exogenous factors, there is the more recent recognition from microspectrophotometry that cone pigment ratios may also change in concert. The effect of lighting conditions and temperature on the visual pigment composition of certain paired-pigment species is presented.
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Lower water temperature (6 degrees C in comparison to 16 degrees C) favors a higher proportion of porphyropsin in the retina of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), regardless of the light conditions (constant darkness or 12 hours of light and 12 of darkness). This response to temperature does not follow a Q10 relation, namely an increase in the rate of a reaction produced by raising the temperature 10 degrees C.
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On partial and differential bleaching experiments with the visual pigments in a fresh water euryhaline teleost (Etroplus suratensis). Cell Mol Life Sci 1977. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01936749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Bridges CD, Delisle CE. Postglacial evolution of the visual pigments of the smelt. Osmerus eperlanus mordax. Vision Res 1974; 14:345-56. [PMID: 4830687 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(74)90094-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Crescitelli F. The Visual Cells and Visual Pigments of the Vertebrate Eye. PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF VISION 1972. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-65066-6_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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WALD G. The Significance of Vertebrate Metamorphosis: A life cycle is circular; and its completion may involve two opposed metamorphoses, biochemical components of which pervade the vertebrate kingdom. Science 1958; 128:1481-90. [PMID: 13615297 DOI: 10.1126/science.128.3337.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The life cycle of the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, includes two metamorphoses. At the end of a period spent as a blind larva, buried in the mud of streams, a first metamorphosis prepares it to migrate downstream to the sea or a lake for its growth phase. Then, following a second metamorphosis, it migrates upstream as a sexually mature adult to spawn and die. The downstream migrants have a visual system based upon rhodopsin and vitamin A(1), whereas that of the upstream migrants is based upon porphyropsin and vitamin A(2). The livers contain vitamin A(1) at all stages. The sea lamprey therefore exhibits a metamorphosis of visual systems, like those observed earlier among amphibia. The presence of porphyropsin in this member of the most primitive living group of vertebrates, as in fishes and amphibia, supports the notion that porphyropsin may have been the primitive vertebrate visual pigment. Its association with fresh water existence throughout this range of organisms also is consistent with the view that the vertebrate stock originated in fresh water. The observation that in the life cycle of the lamprey rhodopsin precedes porphyropsin is not at variance with the idea that porphyropsin is the more primitive pigment, since this change is part of the second metamorphosis, marking the return to the original environment. The observation that in lampreys, fishes, and amphibia, porphyropsin maintains the same general association with fresh water, and rhodopsin with marine and terrestrial habit, suggests that a single genetic mechanism may govern this association throughout this wide span of organisms.
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MORTON RA, PITT GA. Visual pigments. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 1957; 14:244-316. [PMID: 13597972 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-7164-6_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Retinal extracts of the Australian gecko, Phyllurus milii (White), have revealed the presence of a photosensitive pigment, unusual for terrestrial animals, because of its absorption maximum at 524 mmicro. This pigment has an absorption spectrum which is identical in form with that of other visual chromoproteins. It is not a porphyropsin, for bleaching revealed the presence, not of retinene(2), but of retinene(1) as a chromophore. Photolabile pigments with characteristics similar to those of the Phyllurus visual pigment were also detected in retinal extracts of six other species of nocturnal geckos. The presence of this retinal chromoprotein adequately accounts for the unusual visual sensitivity curve described by Denton for the nocturnal gecko. This pigment may have special biological significance in terms of the unique phylogenetic position of geckos as living representatives of nocturnal animals which retain some of the characteristics of their diurnal ancestors. The occurrence of this retinene(1) pigment, intermediate in spectral position between rhodopsin and iodopsin, is interpreted in support of the transmutation theory of Walls. The results and interpretation of this investigation point up the fact that, from a phylogenetic point of view, too great an emphasis on the duplicity theory may serve to detract attention from the evolutionary history of the retina and the essential unitarianism of the visual cells.
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