Episodic sitewise positive selection on the signal recognition particle protein Ffh in Actinobacteria

Autor: Yong-Quan Li, Shan-Zhen Li, Xin Chen, Xue-Ling Shen
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: FEBS Letters. 584:3975-3978
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.07.058
Popis: In this work, we report a case of episodic sitewise positive selection acting on the highly conserved SRP protein Ffh in Actinobacteria. An elevated non-synonymous to synonymous mutation ratio (ω) was observed along the non-terminal branches of the species tree, which contained 11 Actinobacteria species, where positively selected residues were frequently observed within the signal sequence-binding domain. Together with the estimated lineage-specific ω ratios for several core components in the major protein translocation systems, our data suggest that this positive selection might be partially driven by the diversification of signal sequences.
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