A complex and punctate distribution of three eukaryotic genes derived by lateral gene transfer
| Autor: | Dion G. Durnford, Patrick J. Keeling, Michael W. Gray, James T. Harper, Matthew B. Rogers, Russell F. Watkins |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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0106 biological sciences
Nuclear gene Gene Transfer Horizontal Evolution Lineage (evolution) Molecular Sequence Data Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Genome Conserved sequence Evolution Molecular 03 medical and health sciences Bacterial Proteins Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (NADP+)(Phosphorylating) Species Specificity QH359-425 Animals Gene Conserved Sequence Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 030304 developmental biology Expressed Sequence Tags Genetics 0303 health sciences Bacteria Phylogenetic tree DNA biology.organism_classification Eukaryotic Cells Genes Genes Bacterial Horizontal gene transfer Eukaryote Transketolase Carbohydrate Epimerases Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (NADP+) Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Evolutionary Biology, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 89 (2007) BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| ISSN: | 1471-2148 |
| Popis: | Background Lateral gene transfer is increasingly invoked to explain phylogenetic results that conflict with our understanding of organismal relationships. In eukaryotes, the most common observation interpreted in this way is the appearance of a bacterial gene (one that is not clearly derived from the mitochondrion or plastid) in a eukaryotic nuclear genome. Ideally such an observation would involve a single eukaryote or a small group of related eukaryotes encoding a gene from a specific bacterial lineage. Results Here we show that several apparently simple cases of lateral transfer are actually more complex than they originally appeared: in these instances we find that two or more distantly related eukaryotic groups share the same bacterial gene, resulting in a punctate distribution. Specifically, we describe phylogenies of three core carbon metabolic enzymes: transketolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ribulose-5-phosphate-3-epimerase. Phylogenetic trees of each of these enzymes includes a strongly-supported clade consisting of several eukaryotes that are distantly related at the organismal level, but whose enzymes are apparently all derived from the same lateral transfer. With less sampling any one of these examples would appear to be a simple case of bacterium-to-eukaryote lateral transfer; taken together, their evolutionary histories cannot be so simple. The distributions of these genes may represent ancient paralogy events or genes that have been transferred from bacteria to an ancient ancestor of the eukaryotes that retain them. They may alternatively have been transferred laterally from a bacterium to a single eukaryotic lineage and subsequently transferred between distantly related eukaryotes. Conclusion Determining how complex the distribution of a transferred gene is depends on the sampling available. These results show that seemingly simple cases may be revealed to be more complex with greater sampling, suggesting many bacterial genes found in eukaryotic genomes may have a punctate distribution. |
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