Pancreatic-type ribonuclease 1 gene duplications in rat species
| Autor: | François Catzeflis, Patty Mulder, Peter A. Jekel, Jaap J. Beintema, Anton P. Bussink, Jean-Yves F. Dubois, Antonella Carsana |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Biotechnology, Dubois, J. F., Jekel, P. A., Mulder, P. P. M. . F. A., Bussink, A. P., Catzeflis, F. M., Carsana, Antonella, Beintema, J. J. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Time Factors RNase P Pseudogene Molecular Sequence Data MURINAE Paralogous Gene Biology SYSTEMATICS RUMINANTS SEQUENCE Evolution Molecular Mice Species Specificity Gene Duplication Genetics Niviventer Animals rat Amino Acid Sequence Molecular Biology Gene Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Phylogeny gene duplications PURIFICATION Sequence Homology Amino Acid myr SUBSTITUTION Ribonuclease Pancreatic DNA biology.organism_classification EVOLUTION Rats Muridae genomic DNA Niviventer cremoriventer pancreatic-type ribonuclease 1 RODENTIA |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Molecular Evolution, 55(5), 522-533. Springer Verlag |
| ISSN: | 0022-2844 |
| Popis: | Mammalian pancreatic-type ribonucleases (RNases) 1 represent single-copy genes in the genome of most investigated mammalian species, including Mus musculus and other murid rodents. However, in six species belonging to the genus Rattus and closely related taxa, several paralogous gene products were identified by Southern blotting and PCR amplifications of genomic sequences. Phylogenies of nucleotide and derived amino acid sequences were reconstructed by several procedures, with three Mus species as outgroup. Duplications of the RNase 1 occurred after the divergence of Niviventer cremoriventer and Leopoldamys edwardsi from the other investigated species. Four groups of paralogous genes could be identified from specific amino acid sequence features in each of them. Low ratios of nonsynonymous-to-synonymous substitutions and the paucity of pseudogene features suggest functional gene products. One of the RNase 1 genes of R. norvegicus is expressed in the pancreas. RNases 1 were isolated from pancreatic tissues of R. rattus and R. exulans and submitted to N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis. In R. rattus, the orthologue of the expressed gene of R. norvegicus was identified, but in R. exulans, two paralogous gene products were found. The gene encoding for one of these had not yet been found by PCR amplification of genomic DNA. A well-defined group of orthologous sequences found in five investigated species codes for very basic RNases. Northern blot analysis showed expression of messenger RNA for this RNase in the spleen of R. norvegicus, but the protein product could not be identified. Evolutionary rates of RNase 1, expressed as nucleotide substitutions per site per 103 million years (Myr), vary between 5 and 9 in the lines leading to Mus, Niviventer, and Lepoldamys (on the basis of an ancestral date of mouse/rat divergence of 12.2 Myr) and between 20 and 50 in the lines to the other sequences after divergence from Niviventer and Leopoldamys (5.5 Myr). |
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