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UCP基因家族的进化史:基因复制和选择

Evolutionary history of the UCP gene family: gene duplication and selection

Joseph Hughes, Francois Criscuolo

摘要:

背景:解偶联蛋白基因属于线粒体内膜电子传递载体超家族。解偶联蛋白家族成员参与产热过程,确定解偶联蛋白基因的功能进化对于理解脊椎动物体温调节的进化具有重要意义。研究结果:序列相似性搜索的基因组和支架数据确定同源的UCP真兽类,硬骨鱼和第一有鳞动物解偶联蛋白。系统发育分析被用来表征家庭的进化史,通过确定两个重复在脊椎动物进化的早期和两个损失的鸟类谱系(不包括一个物种内的重复,不包括由于不完全测序的类群的损失,并排除损失和重复推断通过物种和基因树的错配)。同义和非同义取代率(dN/dS)和更复杂的分支和网站模型的估计表明,重复事件与积极的达尔文选择和UCP是由强大的纯化选择的限制,除了一个单一的网站,经历了积极的达尔文选择,表明UCP基因家族必须高度保守。结论:我们提出了一个描述UCP基因家族的进化历史,并表明,除了在线粒体基质中的第5和第6 α-螺旋之间的一个单一的网站已经经历了积极的选择,通过重复,然后通过纯化选择的基因已经进化。

英文摘要:

BACKGROUND: The uncoupling protein (UCP) genes belong to the superfamily of electron transport carriers of the mitochondrial inner membrane. Members of the uncoupling protein family are involved in thermogenesis and determining the functional evolution of UCP genes is important to understand the evolution of thermo-regulation in vertebrates. RESULTS: Sequence similarity searches of genome and scaffold data identified homologues of UCP in eutherians, teleosts and the first squamates uncoupling proteins. Phylogenetic analysis was used to characterize the family evolutionary history by identifying two duplications early in vertebrate evolution and two losses in the avian lineage (excluding duplications within a species, excluding the losses due to incompletely sequenced taxa and excluding the losses and duplications inferred through mismatch of species and gene trees). Estimates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates (dN/dS) and more complex branch and site models suggest that the duplication events were not associated with positive Darwinian selection and that the UCP is constrained by strong purifying selection except for a single site which has undergone positive Darwinian selection, demonstrating that the UCP gene family must be highly conserved. CONCLUSION: We present a phylogeny describing the evolutionary history of the UCP gene family and show that the genes have evolved through duplications followed by purifying selection except for a single site in the mitochondrial matrix between the 5th and 6th alpha-helices which has undergone positive selection.

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