Wnt and Frizzled Genes in Echinoderms
| Autor: | A. V. Boyko, Alexander S. Girich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
chemistry.chemical_classification Genetics Frizzled biology Phylogenetic tree 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Wnt signaling pathway 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Amino acid Echinoderm chemistry WNT2 040102 fisheries 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Gene family Gene |
| Zdroj: | Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 45:302-312 |
| ISSN: | 1608-3377 1063-0740 |
| Popis: | Wnt and frizzled genes of 17 echinoderm species were studied by molecular and bioinformatics methods. As a result, it has been found that echinoderms have 11–13 wnt genes and four frizzled genes. The phylum Echinodermata is generally characterized by the loss of some of the Wnt family genes. In particular, members of all classes, except for Asteroidea, lack the wnt11 gene, while the studied Echinoidea lost also the wnt2 gene. Wnt genes are conservative, but the amino acid sequences of the corresponding proteins have only 49–73% similarity to homological proteins in different echinoderm classes. The Frizzled proteins show a higher degree of similarity, 63–76%. A phylogenetic analysis of the Wnt and Frizzled gene families has also been carried out in the present study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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