Naslov
The complete set of ribosomal proteins from the marine sponge Suberites domuncula

Autori
Perina, Dragutin ; Ćetković, Helena ; Harcet, Matija ; Lukić-Bilela, Lada ; Mueller, WEG ; Gamulin, Vera

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Zbornik sažetaka 9. hrvatskog biološkog kongresa = Proceedings of Abstracts of 9th Croatian Biological Congress / Višnja Besenorfer ; Goran I.V. Klobučar - Zagreb : Hrvatsko biološko društvo, 2006, 80-82

Skup
9. Hrvatski biološki kongres

Mjesto i datum
Rovinj, Hrvatska, 23.09.2006. - 29.09.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
ribosomal proteins

Sažetak
The siliceous marine sponge Suberites domuncula is a member of the most ancient and simplest extant phylum of multicellular animals - Porifera, which have branched off first from the common ancestor of all Metazoa. We have determined primary structures of 79 ribosomal proteins (r-proteins) from S. domuncula: 32 proteins from the small ribosomal subunit and 47 proteins from the large ribosomal subunit. Only L39 and L41 polypeptides (51 and 25 residues long in rat, respectively) are missing from the data set of sponge r-proteins. The sponge S. domuncula is, after nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and insect Drosophila melanogaster the third representative of invertebrates with known amino acid sequences of all r-proteins. Comparison of S. domuncula r-proteins with r-proteins from D. melanogaster, C. elegans, rat, Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed very interesting findings. The majority of the sponge r-proteins are more similar to their homologues from rat, than to those either from C. elegans or D. melanogaster or yeast or plant. With few exceptions, the overall sequence conservation between sponge and rat r-proteins is 80% or higher. The phylogenetic tree of concatenated r-proteins from 6 eukaryotic species (rooted with archaeal r-proteins) has the shortest branches connecting sponge and rat. Both model invertebrate organisms experienced recently accelerated evolution and therefore sponge r-proteins very probably better reflect structures of proteins in the ancestral metazoan ribosome, which changed only little during metazoan evolution. Furthermore, r-proteins from the plant A. thaliana are significantly closer to metazoan r-proteins than are those from the yeast S. cerevisiae.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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