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Mubashshir M, Ahmad N, Negi T, Sharma RB, Sköld HN, Ovais M. Exploring the mechanisms and impacts of melatonin on fish colouration. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2023; 49:1511-1525. [PMID: 37982969 DOI: 10.1007/s10695-023-01271-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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The pineal hormone melatonin is a multi-functional molecule with a recognized role in pigment aggregation in chromatophores, mediating its actions through binding to subtypes of its specific receptors. Since its discovery, melatonin has been known to be responsible for pigment aggregation towards the cell centre in fishes, including their embryos, as an adaptation to reduced light and thus results in pale body colouration. Diversity exists in the sensitivity of melanophores towards melatonin at interspecies, intraspecific levels, seasons, and amongst chromatophores at different regions of the animal body. In most of the fishes, melatonin leads to their skin paling at night. It is indicated that the melatonin receptors have characteristically maintained to show the same aggregating effects in fishes and other vertebrates in the evolutionary hierarchy. However, besides this aggregatory effect, melatonin is also responsible for pigment dispersion in certain fishes. Here is the demand in our review to explore further the nature of the dispersive behaviour of melatonin through the so-called β-melatonin receptors. It is clear that the pigment translocations in lower vertebrates under the effect of melatonin are mediated through the melatonin receptors coupled with other hormonal receptors as well. Therefore, being richly supplied with a variety of receptors, chromatophores and melanocytes can be used as in vitro test models for pharmacological applications of known and novel drugs. In this review, we present diverse effects of melatonin on chromatophores of fishes in particular with appropriate implications on most of the recent findings.
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- Muhammad Mubashshir
- School of Allied Sciences, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India.
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Basic & Applied Sciences, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303012, India.
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- School of Allied Sciences, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India
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- School of Allied Sciences, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India
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- School of Allied Sciences, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India
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- Department of Bio-Science, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, MP, 462026, India
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Loganathan K, Moriya S, Parhar IS. Trek2a regulates gnrh3 expression under control of melatonin receptor Mt1 and α 2-adrenoceptor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 496:927-933. [PMID: 29395088 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.01.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) expression is associated with the two-pore domain potassium ion (K+) channel-related K+ (TREK) channel trek2a expression and melatonin levels. We aimed to investigate correlation of trek2a expression with gnrh3 expression, and regulatory mechanisms of trek2a expression by the melatonin receptor Mt1 and α2-adrenoceptor which are regulated by melatonin. trek2a specific siRNA, Mt1 antagonist luzindole and α2-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin were administered into the adult zebrafish brain and gene expressions were examined by real-time PCR. trek2a specific siRNA administration significantly reduced expression levels of trek2a, gnrh3 and mt1. Luzindole administration suppressed trek2a and gnrh3 expressions. Prazosin administration reduced trek2a and gnrh3 expressions. It is suggested that Trek2a regulates gnrh3 expression under the control of Mt1 and α2-adrenoceptor.
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- Kavinash Loganathan
- Brain Research Institute, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia
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- Brain Research Institute, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia.
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- Brain Research Institute, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia
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Bertolesi GE, McFarlane S. Seeing the light to change colour: An evolutionary perspective on the role of melanopsin in neuroendocrine circuits regulating light-mediated skin pigmentation. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2018; 31:354-373. [PMID: 29239123 DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Melanopsin photopigments, Opn4x and Opn4m, were evolutionary selected to "see the light" in systems that regulate skin colour change. In this review, we analyse the roles of melanopsins, and how critical evolutionary developments, including the requirement for thermoregulation and ultraviolet protection, the emergence of a background adaptation mechanism in land-dwelling amphibian ancestors and the loss of a photosensitive pineal gland in mammals, may have helped sculpt the mechanisms that regulate light-controlled skin pigmentation. These mechanisms include melanopsin in skin pigment cells directly inducing skin darkening for thermoregulation/ultraviolet protection; melanopsin-expressing eye cells controlling neuroendocrine circuits to mediate background adaptation in amphibians in response to surface-reflected light; and pineal gland secretion of melatonin phased to environmental illuminance to regulate circadian and seasonal variation in skin colour, a process initiated by melanopsin-expressing eye cells in mammals, and by as yet unknown non-visual opsins in the pineal gland of non-mammals.
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- Gabriel E Bertolesi
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Sköld HN, Aspengren S, Cheney KL, Wallin M. Fish Chromatophores—From Molecular Motors to Animal Behavior. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 321:171-219. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Melatonin does not affect the black pigment migration in the crab Neohelice granulata. Biologia (Bratisl) 2009. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-009-0016-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Chapter 6 New Insights into Melanosome Transport in Vertebrate Pigment Cells. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 272:245-302. [DOI: 10.1016/s1937-6448(08)01606-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Aspengren S, Sköld HN, Quiroga G, Mårtensson L, Wallin M. Noradrenaline- and melatonin-mediated regulation of pigment aggregation in fish melanophores. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 2003; 16:59-64. [PMID: 12519126 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00003.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The effects of melatonin and noradrenaline (NA) on bi-directional melanosome transport were analysed in primary cultures of melanophores from the Atlantic cod. Both agents mediated rapid melanosome aggregation, and by using receptor antagonists, melatonin was found to bind to a melatonin receptor whereas NA binds to an alpha2-adrenoceptor. It has previously been stated that melatonin-mediated melanosome aggregation in Xenopus is coupled with tyrosine phosphorylation of a so far unidentified high molecular weight protein and we show that although acting through different receptors and through somewhat different downstream signalling events, tyrosine phosphorylation is of the utmost importance for melanosome aggregation mediated by both NA and melatonin in cod melanophores. Together with cyclic adenosine 3-phosphate-fluctuations, tyrosine phosphorylation functions as a switch signal for melanosome aggregation and dispersion in these cells.
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- Sara Aspengren
- Department of Zoology and Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
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Mårtensson LG, Andersson RG. A pharmacological interaction between melatonin and the alpha 2-adrenoceptor in cuckoo wrasse melanophores. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2000; 460:221-8. [PMID: 10810517 DOI: 10.1007/0-306-46814-x_24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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- L G Mårtensson
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping, Sweden
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Mårtensson LG, Andersson RG. Is Ca2+ the second messenger in the response to melatonin in cuckoo wrasse melanophores? Life Sci 2000; 66:1003-10. [PMID: 10724447 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(99)00665-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pigment aggregation in melanophores of Labrus ossifagus is controlled by an alpha2-adrenoceptor and is somehow modulated by melatonin. The signal transduction mechanisms seem to involve both an attenuation of cAMP and an increase in intracellular Ca2+, inhibiting protein kinase A or activating a phosphatase, respectively. These effects result in dephosphorylation, which in turn induces aggregation. Various alpha2-adrenoceptor agonists attenuate cAMP levels or increase the concentration of intracellular Ca2+. Noradrenaline, for example, lowers cAMP but does not affect the calcium signal whereas B-HT 920, an alpha2-adrenoceptor specific agonist, does not induce a cAMP decrease but does appear to induce an increase in intracellular Ca2+. This later inference is drawn from experiments with BAPTA/AM, an intracellular calcium chelator, which counteracts the aggregation induced by B-HT 920. Interestingly, the very potent alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist medetomidine apparently activates both signal transduction pathways, which could explain its high efficacy in producing aggregation. Melatonin itself does not cause pigment aggregation, but it potentiates noradrenaline-induced aggregation. It has been suggested that melatonin receptors and alpha2-adrenoceptors follow the same signal transduction pathway, i.e. an attenuation of cAMP. In our experiments, melatonin did not reduce cAMP levels; instead it appears to increase Ca2+ concentration, since melatonin-potentiated aggregation was inhibited by BAPTA/AM. Thus, aggregation amplified by melatonin is probably not mediated by a further decrease in cAMP, but by the same signal transduction mechanism as B-HT 920, i.e. an increase in Ca2+. This further strengthens the suggestion that melatonin and B-HT 920 bind to the same site, but it is unclear if that particular site is on the melatonin receptor or the alpha2-adrenoceptor.
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- L G Mårtensson
- Department of Zoology, Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
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Nery LE, Da Silva MA, Castrucci AM. Possible role of non-classical chromatophorotropins on the regulation of the crustacean erythrophore. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1999; 284:711-6. [PMID: 10531558 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(19991101)284:6<711::aid-jez13>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Two neuropeptides, the pigment dispersing hormone (PDH) and the pigment concentrating hormone (PCH), are well known to respectively promote centrifugal and centripetal granule translocation in the freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium potiuna erythrophores. Herein, we demonstrate for the first time the effects of crustacean non-classical chromatophorotropins on the pigment migration in M. potiuna erythrophores. Although proctolin, 20-hydroxyecdisone (20HE), and melatonin were ineffective, the crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP) was a full agonist, inducing pigment dispersion in a dose-dependent manner with EC(50) of 9.5. 10(-7) M. In addition, concentrations of CCAP lower than the minimal effective dose (10(-8) and 10(-7) M) decreased the PCH-induced aggregation, shifting rightward the dose-response curve (DRC) to PCH 2.2- and 29-fold, respectively. Surprisingly, melatonin (10(-7) and 10(-6) M) also shifted to the right 8.7- and 46.5-fold, respectively, the DRC to PCH. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that besides PCH and PDH, CCAP and melatonin also regulate the pigment migration within the crustacean erythrophore. J. Exp. Zool. 284:711-716, 1999.
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- L E Nery
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil 05508-900
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Moartensson LG, Andersson RG. Denervation of pigment cells lead to a receptor that is ultrasensitive to melatonin and noradrenaline. Life Sci 1997; 60:1575-82. [PMID: 9126879 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00123-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Pigment granule aggregation and dispersal can be studied in the melanophores of isolated scales from the cuckoo wrasse (Labrus ossifagus L.). Stimulation of a melanophore alpha2-adrenoceptor or the sympathetic nerve innervating the cell causes pigment aggregation. When the stimulation ceases, the pigment granules disperse throughout the cell. Studying this migration has been a useful tool in pharmacological research, particularly in investigations of the alpha2-adrenoceptor. Denervation of melanophores creates a receptor that is ultrasensitive to noradrenaline and melatonin. After three to four weeks of isolation, the denervated melanophores exhibit a 10(9)-fold increase in sensitivity. The efficacy of melatonin is increased from a negligible pigment-aggregation ability to the level of a full agonist. The melatonin-induced aggregation can, however, be counteracted by the alpha2-adrenoceptor antagonist yohimbine, but not by alpha1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin, indicating that the ultrasensitive receptor possesses alpha2-adrenoceptor features. Consequently, we conclude that the ultrasensitive receptor may represent an alpha2-adrenoceptor that has, due to denervation of the melanophore, become sensitive to melatonin.
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- L G Moartensson
- Dept. of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping, Sweden.
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Mårtensson LG, Andersson RG, Berg G. Melatonin together with noradrenaline augments contractions of human myometrium. Eur J Pharmacol 1996; 316:273-5. [PMID: 8982698 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(96)00803-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The hormone melatonin is known to influence the circadian rhythm, and it probably also mediates some of the physiological changes that occur in the body at night. Inasmuch as uterine activity is greater during darkness, we investigated whether melatonin could modulate uterine contractility. Biopsies were performed during caesarean sections to obtain uterine tissue from women who had reached full term. The obtained samples were mounted in organ baths, and spontaneous contractions were recorded. Melatonin alone did not change myometrial contractility, whereas melatonin in combination with noradrenaline potentiated contractions. These results may indicate that melatonin plays a role in the timing of labour, since labour often begins late in the evening.
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- L G Mårtensson
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
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