Naslov
Identification and expression of the SOS response, AidB-like gene in the marine sponge Geodia cydonium-Implication for the phylogenetic relationships of metazoan Acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and Acyl-CoA oxidases.

Autori
Krasko, A. ; Schroder, H.C. ; Hassanein, H.M.A. ; Batel, Renato ; Muller, I.M. ; Muller, W.E.G.

Izvornik
Journal of molecular evolution (0022-2844) 47 (1998), 3; 343-352

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Geodia cydonium; Sponges; Sos-response genetics; Aidb; Acyl-coa dehydrogenase

Sažetak
Sponges (Porifera) are the phylogenetically oldest metazoan organisms. From one member of the siliceous sponges, Geodia cydonium, the cDNA encoding a putative SOS protein,the AidB-like protein of the Ada system from bacteria, was isolated and characterized.The cDNA, GCaidB, comprises an open reading frame of 446 amino acid (aa) residues encoding a polypeptide with a calculated M-r of 49,335. This molecule shows high similarity to the bacterial AidB proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli and somewhat lower similarities to acyl-CoA dehydrogenases (ADHs) and acyl-CoA oxidases (AOXs). Northern blot analysis confirmed the presence of the complete transcript. The deduced sponge aa sequence, GC_aidB, possesses the two characteristic acyl-CoA dehydrogenase signatures 1 and 2. Incubation of the sponge with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine causes a strong increase in the 2.1-kb large transcript of GCaidB; maximal expression is seen after 24 h of incubation with this DNA methylating agent. ADHs and AOXs can be grouped, depending on the position of the catalytically important Glu residue, into the Glu-Gly (Glu adjacent to Gly) class and the Glu-Arg (Glu adjacent to Arg) class. The phylogenetically oldest metazoan AidB-like molecule, GC_aidB of G. cydonium, belongs to the Glu-Gly class of ADHs. Phylogenetic analyses of the Glu-Gly class enzymes, with the described AidB-like protein from G. cydonium and the bacterial AidB polypeptides, together with metazoan ADHs and AOXs,revealed that the AidB(-like) proteins diverged first from a common ancestor, while the eukaryotic AOX and ADA polypeptides as well as the GHDs appeared later. According to the analyses, the very long-chain ADHs are older than the medium-chain, short-chain,and branched-chain ADHs. Inclusion of the phylogenetical oldest member of the Glu-Arg class of enzymes, the bacterial ADH-CaiA sequence in these analyses, revealed that this class of enzymes appeared later in evolution and arose from the Glu-Gly class perhaps after gene duplication.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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