Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 148, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.195859
Keywords
Hypoxia; Gene regulatory networks; Sea urchin; Deoxygenation; Evolution and development; Skeletogenesis
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- Israel Science Foundation [41/14, 211/20]
- University of Haifa
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The tolerance to hypoxic conditions changes between different developmental stages of sea urchin embryos, possibly due to the structure of gene regulatory networks. Hypoxia applied during early development strongly affects the activity of certain pathways, while pathways are largely unaffected by hypoxia applied after DV-axis formation.
Deoxygenation, the reduction of oxygen level in the oceans induced by global warming and anthropogenic disturbances, is a major threat to marine life. This change in oxygen level could be especially harmful to marine embryos that use endogenous hypoxia and redox gradients as morphogens during normal development. Here, we show that the tolerance to hypoxic conditions changes between different developmental stages of the sea urchin embryo, possibly due to the structure of the gene regulatory networks (GRNs). We demonstrate that during normal development, the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway restricts the activity of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway to two lateral domains and this restriction controls proper skeletal patterning. Hypoxia applied during early development strongly perturbs the activity of Nodal and BMP pathways that affect the VEGF pathway, dorsal-ventral (DV) and skeletogenic patterning. These pathways are largely unaffected by hypoxia applied after DV-axis formation. We propose that the use of redox and hypoxia as morphogens makes the sea urchin embryo highly sensitive to environmental hypoxia during early development, but the GRN structure provides higher tolerance to hypoxia at later stages.
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