Alternative splicing and subfunctionalization generates functional diversity in fungal proteomes.
Alternative splicing and subfunctionalization generates functional diversity in fungal proteomes.
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1003376
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2013
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
van Hoof A
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作者:
Marshall AN;Montealegre MC;Jiménez-López C;Lorenz MC;van Hoof A
Alternative splicing is commonly used by the Metazoa to generate more than one protein from a gene. However, such diversification of the proteome by alternative splicing is much rarer in fungi. We describe here an ancient fungal alternative splicing event in which these two proteins are generated from a single alternatively spliced ancestral SKI7/HBS1 gene retained in many species in both the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. While the ability to express two proteins from a single SKI7/HBS1 gene is conserved in many fungi, the exact mechanism by which they achieve this varies. The alternative splicing was lost in Saccharomyces cerevisiae following the whole-genome duplication event as these two genes subfunctionalized into the present functionally distinct HBS1 and SKI7 genes. When expressed in yeast, the single gene from Lachancea kluyveri generates two functionally distinct proteins. Expression of one of these proteins complements hbs1, but not ski7 mutations, while the other protein complements ski7, but not hbs1. This is the first known case of subfunctionalization by loss of alternative splicing in yeast. By coincidence, the ancestral alternatively spliced gene was also duplicated in Schizosaccharomyces pombe with subsequent subfunctionalization and loss of splicing. Similar subfunctionalization by loss of alternative splicing in fungi also explains the presence of two PTC7 genes in the budding yeast Tetrapisispora blattae, suggesting that this is a common mechanism to preserve duplicate alternatively spliced genes. The role of duplicated genes in originating new functions is an important question in evolution. Almost all species have duplicated genes that carry out similar but not identical functions. Similar proteins that perform different functions can also be generated when one gene generates multiple mRNAs by alternative splicing that are translated into multiple similar proteins. This alternative splicing is prevalent in animal cells, but much rarer in fungi. Here we show that most fungi use alternative splicing to make a Ski7 protein and a Hbs1 protein from the same gene. Two fungi, budding yeast and fission yeast, have been much better characterized than other fungi, and co-incidentally they both have duplicated this alternatively spliced gene, resulting in two similar genes that are no longer alternatively spliced. Finally, we describe another example where two duplicate genes replace one alternatively spliced gene, suggesting that this is a common mechanism to divide functions among duplicate genes.
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影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Atkinson GC;Baldauf SL;Hauryliuk V
通讯作者:
Hauryliuk V
DOI:
10.1083/jcb.200803098
发表时间:
2008-09-08
期刊:
The Journal of cell biology
影响因子:
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作者:
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