Darwinian selection for sites of Asn-linked glycosylation in phylogenetically disparate eukaryotes and viruses
| Autor: | Jike Cui, John Samuelson, Temple F. Smith, Phillips W. Robbins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Protein Folding
Glycan Glycosylation Time Factors Hemagglutinin (influenza) Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins Influenza Virus HIV Envelope Protein gp120 Open Reading Frames chemistry.chemical_compound Polysaccharides Phylogenetics Humans Coding region Amino Acids Selection Genetic Phylogeny Glycoproteins chemistry.chemical_classification Genetics Likelihood Functions Multidisciplinary biology Sequon Biological Sciences Orthomyxoviridae AT Rich Sequence Eukaryotic Cells chemistry Membrane protein Host-Pathogen Interactions Viruses biology.protein Asparagine Glycoprotein |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| Popis: | Numerous protists and rare fungi have truncated Asn-linked glycan precursors and lack N-glycan-dependent quality control (QC) systems for glycoprotein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum. Here, we show that the abundance of sequons (NXT or NXS), which are sites for N-glycosylation of secreted and membrane proteins, varies by more than a factor of 4 among phylogenetically diverse eukaryotes, based on a few variables. There is positive correlation between the density of sequons and the AT content of coding regions, although no causality can be inferred. In contrast, there appears to be Darwinian selection for sequons containing Thr, but not Ser, in eukaryotes that have N-glycan-dependent QC systems. Selection for sequons with Thr, which nearly doubles the sequon density in human secreted and membrane proteins, occurs by an increased conditional probability that Asn and Thr are present in sequons rather than elsewhere. Increasing sequon densities of the hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza viruses A/H3N2 and A/H1N1 during the past few decades of human infection also result from an increased conditional probability that Asn, Thr, and Ser are present in sequons rather than elsewhere. In contrast, there is no selection on sequons by this mechanism in HA of A/H5N1 or 2009 A/H1N1 (Swine flu). Very strong selection for sequons with both Thr and Ser in glycoprotein of M r 120,000 (gp120) of HIV and related retroviruses results from this same mechanism, as well as amino acid composition bias and increases in AT content. We conclude that there is Darwinian selection for sequons in phylogenetically disparate eukaryotes and viruses. |
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