期刊
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 175, 期 3, 页码 407-415出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.11.026
关键词
Evolution; Gene duplication; POMC; Solea senegalensis; Stress; Subfunctionalization
资金
- Ministerio Educacion y Ciencia of Spain [AGL2007-61211/ACU]
- Proyecto de Excelencia (Consejeria de Innovacion, Ciencia y Empresa. Junta de Andalucia) [PO7-RNM-02843]
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Spain) [AP2006-03932]
- Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
The precursor protein proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gives rise to a variety of biologically active peptides through cell-specific posttranslational processing. Two transcripts of pomc were found in the flatfish Solea senegalensis (ssePOMC-A and ssePOMC-B), that most likely represent subfunctionalized paralogues: ssePOMC-A lacks the N-terminal cleavage site for beta-MSH, whereas ssePOMC-B cannot yield ACTH and completely lacks the opioid consensus sequence in the beta-END region. An analysis of nucleotide substitution rates shows that the POMC-derived peptides possess well-conserved regions under purifying selection, except the beta-END derived from POMC-B, which has undergone positive selection. The calculated K-s values for ssePOMC-A versus ssePOMC-B and zebrafish POMC alpha versus zebrafish POMC beta are 0.40 and 0.72, respectively, indicating that the zebrafish POMC paralogues started to evolve almost twice as early in evolution, and that the Solea POMC paralogues arose independently from the whole genome duplication event that gave rise to the zebrafish paralogues. This makes ssePOMC-B the first identified POMC alpha orthologue that lacks the opioid consensus. Furthermore, pomc-a expression is down-regulated in chronic stressed S. senegalensis juveniles, whereas pomc-b expression levels remain unaffected, indicating different physiological roles for both POMC paralogues. The distribution of functional POMC-derived peptide hormones over two pomc genes in S. senegalensis suggests subfunctionalization of the paralogues, a relevant notion when studying POMC function in endocrine responses. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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