Endogenic upregulations of HIF/VEGF signaling pathway genes promote air breathing organ angiogenesis in bimodal respiration fish
- 27 November 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Functional & Integrative Genomics
- Vol. 22 (1), 65-76
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-021-00822-8
Abstract
Air-breathing has evolved independently serval times with a variety of air-breathing organs (ABOs) in fish. The physiology of the air-breathing in bimodal respiration fish has been well understood, while studies on molecular mechanisms of the character are very limited. In the present study, we first determined the gill indexes of 110 fish species including 25 and 85 kinds of bimodal respiration fishes and non-air-breathing fishes, respectively. Then combined with histological observations of gills and ABOs/non-ABOs in three bimodal respiration fishes and two non-air breathing fishes, we found that the bimodal respiration fish was always of a degeneration gill and a well-vascularized ABO. Meanwhile, a comparative transcriptome analysis of posterior intestines, namely a well vascularized ABO in Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and a non-ABO in Leptobotia elongata, was performed to expound molecular variations of the air-breathing character. A total of 5,003 orthologous genes were identified. Among them, 1,189 orthologous genes were differentially expressed, which were enriched in 14 KEGG pathways. More specially, the expressions of hemoglobin genes and various HIF/VEGF signaling pathway genes were obviously upregulated in the ABO of M. anguillicaudatus. Moreover, we found that HIF-1α, VEGFAa, and MAP2K1 were co-expressed dramatically higher in ABOs of bimodal respiration fishes than those of non-ABOs of non-air-breathing fishes. These results indicated that the HIF/VEGF pathway played an important role in ABO angiogenesis/formation to promote fish to do aerial respiration. This study will contribute to our understanding of molecular mechanisms of air-breathing in fish.Keywords
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