PMID- 35392133 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220411 LR - 20220727 IS - 1664-2392 (Print) IS - 1664-2392 (Electronic) IS - 1664-2392 (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - Overview and New Insights Into the Diversity, Evolution, Role, and Regulation of Kisspeptins and Their Receptors in Teleost Fish. PG - 862614 LID - 10.3389/fendo.2022.862614 [doi] LID - 862614 AB - In the last two decades, kisspeptin (Kiss) has been identified as an important player in the regulation of reproduction and other physiological functions in vertebrates, including several fish species. To date, two ligands (Kiss1, Kiss2) and three kisspeptin receptors (Kissr1, Kissr2, Kissr3) have been identified in teleosts, likely due to whole-genome duplication and loss of genes that occurred early in teleost evolution. Recent results in zebrafish and medaka mutants have challenged the notion that the kisspeptin system is essential for reproduction in fish, in marked contrast to the situation in mammals. In this context, this review focuses on the role of kisspeptins at three levels of the reproductive, brain-pituitary-gonadal (BPG) axis in fish. In addition, this review compiled information on factors controlling the Kiss/Kissr system, such as photoperiod, temperature, nutritional status, sex steroids, neuropeptides, and others. In this article, we summarize the available information on the molecular diversity and evolution, tissue expression and neuroanatomical distribution, functional significance, signaling pathways, and gene regulation of Kiss and Kissr in teleost fishes. Of particular note are recent advances in understanding flatfish kisspeptin systems, which require further study to reveal their structural and functional diversity. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Wang, Mechaly and Somoza. FAU - Wang, Bin AU - Wang B AD - Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China. AD - Laboratory for Marine Fisheries and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, China. FAU - Mechaly, Alejandro S AU - Mechaly AS AD - Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Biotecnologia (INBIOTEC-CONICET), Mar del Plata, Argentina. AD - Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas (FIBA), Mar del Plata, Argentina. FAU - Somoza, Gustavo M AU - Somoza GM AD - Instituto Tecnologico de Chascomus (CONICET-UNSAM), Chascomus, Argentina. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20220322 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) JT - Frontiers in endocrinology JID - 101555782 RN - 0 (Kisspeptins) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain/metabolism MH - *Kisspeptins/genetics/metabolism MH - Ligands MH - Oryzias/genetics MH - *Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics/metabolism MH - Reproduction/genetics MH - *Zebrafish PMC - PMC8982144 OTO - NOTNLM OT - fish OT - gene regulation OT - kisspeptin OT - kisspeptin receptor OT - reproduction OT - signaling pathway COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/04/09 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/12 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/04/08 05:16 PHST- 2022/01/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/08 05:16 [entrez] PHST- 2022/04/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fendo.2022.862614 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Mar 22;13:862614. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.862614. eCollection 2022.