PMID- 32973673 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210603 LR - 20210603 IS - 1664-2392 (Print) IS - 1664-2392 (Electronic) IS - 1664-2392 (Linking) VI - 11 DP - 2020 TI - Corticotropin-Releasing Factor: An Ancient Peptide Family Related to the Secretin Peptide Superfamily. PG - 529 LID - 10.3389/fendo.2020.00529 [doi] LID - 529 AB - Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is the hypothalamic releasing peptide that regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal/inter-renal (HPA/I) axis in vertebrates. Over the last 25 years, there has been considerable discussion on its paralogs genes, urotensin-I/urocortin-1, and urocortins-2 and-3 and their subsequent role in the vertebrate stress response. Phylogenetically, the CRF family of peptides also belong to the diverse assemblage of Secretin- and Calcitonin-based peptides as evidenced by comparative-based studies of both their ligand and G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structures. Despite this, the common origin of this large assemblage of peptides has not been ascertained. An unusual peptide, teneurin-C-terminal associated peptide (TCAP), reported in 2004, comprises the distal extracellular tip of the teneurin transmembrane proteins. Further studies indicated that this teneurin region binds to the latrophilin family of GPCRs. Initially thought to be a member of the Secretin GPCR family, evidence indicates that the latrophilins are a member of the Adhesion family of GPCRs and are related to the common ancestor of both Adhesion and Secretin GPCR families. In this study, we posit that TCAP may be a distantly related ancestor of the CRF-Calcitonin-Secretin peptide family and evolved near the base of metazoan phylogeny. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Michalec, Chang, Lovejoy and Lovejoy. FAU - Michalec, Ola M AU - Michalec OM AD - Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Chang, Belinda S W AU - Chang BSW AD - Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Lovejoy, Nathan R AU - Lovejoy NR AD - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Lovejoy, David A AU - Lovejoy DA AD - Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200827 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) JT - Frontiers in endocrinology JID - 101555782 RN - 0 (secretin releasing peptide) RN - 1393-25-5 (Secretin) RN - 9015-71-8 (Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Databases, Factual MH - *Evolution, Molecular MH - Humans MH - *Multigene Family MH - *Phylogeny MH - Secretin/genetics/*metabolism MH - Sequence Homology PMC - PMC7481443 OTO - NOTNLM OT - TCAP OT - adhesion GPCRs OT - evolution OT - metabolism OT - secretin superfamily OT - teneurin EDAT- 2020/09/26 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/04 06:00 PMCR- 2020/01/01 CRDT- 2020/09/25 06:01 PHST- 2020/04/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/09/25 06:01 [entrez] PHST- 2020/09/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/04 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fendo.2020.00529 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2020 Aug 27;11:529. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00529. eCollection 2020.