Harvesting clues from genome wide transcriptome analysis for exploring thalidomide mediated anomalies in eye development of chick embryo : Nitric oxide rectifies the thalidomide mediated anomalies by swinging back the system to normal transcriptome pattern

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Thalidomide, the notorious teratogen is known to cause various developmental abnormalities, among which a range of eye deformations are very common. From the clinical point of view, it is necessary to pinpoint the mechanisms of teratogens that tune the gene expression. However, to our knowledge, the molecular basis of eye deformities under thalidomide treatmenthas not been reported so far. Present study focuses on the possible mechanism by which thalidomide affects eye development and the role of Nitric Oxide in recovering thalidomide-mediated anomalies of eye development using chick embryo and zebrafish models with transcriptome analysis. Transcriptome analysis showed that 403 genes were up-regulated and 223 genes were down-regulated significantly in thalidomide pre-treated embryos. 8% of the significantly modulated genes have been implicated in eye development including Pax6, OTX2, Dkk1 and Shh. A wide range of biological process and molecular function was affected by thalidomide exposure. Biological Processes including structural constituent of eye lens and Molecular functions such as visual perception and retinal metabolic process formed strong annotation clustersindicating the adverse effects of thalidomide on eye development and function. Here, we have discussed the whole embryo transcriptome with the expression of PAX6, SOX2, and CRYAAgenes from developing eyes. Our experimental data showing structural and functional aspects includingeye size, lens transparency and optic nerve activity and bioinformatics analyses of transcriptome suggest that NO could partially protect thalidomide treated embryos from its devastating effects on eye development and function.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

Biochimie - 121(2016) vom: 01. Feb., Seite 253-67

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kumar, Pavitra [VerfasserIn]
Kasiviswanathan, Dharanibalan [VerfasserIn]
Sundaresan, Lakshmikirupa [VerfasserIn]
Kathirvel, Priyadarshan [VerfasserIn]
Veeriah, Vimal [VerfasserIn]
Dutta, Priya [VerfasserIn]
Sankaranarayanan, Kavitha [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Chatterjee, Suvro [VerfasserIn]

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Chick embryo
Eye development
Journal Article
Nitric Oxide
Nitric Oxide Donors
Nitric oxide
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Teratogenicity
Thalidomide
Transcriptome

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Date Completed 25.10.2016

Date Revised 30.12.2016

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.biochi.2015.12.013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM256024030