Evolutionary analysis of the carnitine- and choline acyltransferases suggests distinct evolution of CPT2 versus CPT1 and related variants
| Autor: | Feike R. van der Leij, Marjanne D. van der Hoek, Ole Madsen, Jaap Keijer |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Palmitoyltransferase Animal Breeding and Genomics Choline Evolution Molecular 03 medical and health sciences Evolutionary history 0302 clinical medicine Carnitine Yeasts Acetyltransferase medicine Animals Fokkerij en Genomica Caenorhabditis elegans Molecular Biology Gene Phylogeny VLAG Genetics biology Phylogenetic tree Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase Intron Cell Biology Exons biology.organism_classification Choline acetyltransferase Introns Ghrelin Mitochondria Isoenzymes 030104 developmental biology Acyltransferases Human and Animal Physiology WIAS Fysiologie van Mens en Dier Drosophila 030217 neurology & neurosurgery medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1863, 909-918 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1863 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1388-1981 |
| Popis: | Carnitine/choline acyltransferases play diverse roles in energy metabolism and neuronal signalling. Our knowledge of their evolutionary relationships, important for functional understanding, is incomplete. Therefore, we aimed to determine the evolutionary relationships of these eukaryotic transferases. We performed extensive phylogenetic and intron position analyses. We found that mammalian intramitochondrial CPT2 is most closely related to cytosolic yeast carnitine transferases (Sc-YAT1 and 2), whereas the other members of the family are related to intraorganellar yeast Sc-CAT2. Therefore, the cytosolically active CPT1 more closely resembles intramitochondrial ancestors than CPT2. The choline acetyltransferase is closely related to carnitine acetyltransferase and shows lower evolutionary rates than long chain acyltransferases. In the CPT1 family several duplications occurred during animal radiation, leading to the isoforms CPT1A, CPT1B and CPT1C. In addition, we found five CPT1-like genes in Caenorhabditis elegans that strongly group to the CPT1 family. The long branch leading to mammalian brain isoform CPT1C suggests that either strong positive or relaxed evolution has taken place on this node. The presented evolutionary delineation of carnitine/choline acyltransferases adds to current knowledge on their functions and provides tangible leads for further experimental research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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