Reply to Redmond and McLysaght: Uncertainty in the origin of amphioxus IRBP homologs.
Reply to Redmond and McLysaght: Uncertainty in the origin of amphioxus IRBP homologs.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2310867120
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发表时间:
2023-08-22
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Daugherty, Matthew D.
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Kalluraya, Chinmay A.;Weitzel, Alexander J.;Tsu, Brian V.;Daugherty, Matthew D.
We recently reported that interphotoreceptor retinoidbinding protein (IRBP), a key protein in the vertebrate visual cycle (1, 2), originated from the horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of a bacterial gene (3). Although not our primary focus, we also identified an independent HGT event that gave rise to fungal IRBP homologs, as well as IRBP homologs in amphioxus genomes. While our phylogenetic analyses suggested the amphioxus proteins originated as a third independent HGT, we were careful to qualify this conclusion for reasons described below.Given that amphioxus and vertebrates are both chordates (4), but that tunicates (the sister clade to vertebrates) appear to lack IRBP homologs, we considered two evolutionary models: either two independent HGT events gave rise to vertebrate IRBP and amphioxus IRBP homologs or a single HGT event occurred in the chordate ancestor and IRBP was subsequently lost in tunicates (3). To robustly test these scenarios, we performed multiple phylogenetic analyses using full-length and individual domain alignments, different number of sequences, different phylogenetic software, and different amino acid substitution models. All 10 of these analyses indicated that amphioxus and vertebrate IRBP homologs originated from separate HGT events (3). We also found no shared introns or synteny between the vertebrate and amphioxus clades despite shared introns and synteny within each clade (3). However, we remained open to the possibility of a single HGT into a chordate ancestor (3), as deep branches in phylogenetic trees can be difficult to resolve without additional species representatives (5, 6). In their letter (7), Redmond and McLysaght aim to definitively address the relatedness of vertebrate and amphioxus IRBP homologs by reanalyzing our sequence alignments. In one analysis, they observed phylogenetic separation of amphioxus and vertebrate IRBP homologs [figure 1A (7)], consistent with our eight full-length analyses. In their second analysis, they use our alignment of individual IRBP domains,
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Simakov O;Kawashima T;Marlétaz F;Jenkins J;Koyanagi R;Mitros T;Hisata K;Bredeson J;Shoguchi E;Gyoja F;Yue JX;Chen YC;Freeman RM Jr;Sasaki A;Hikosaka-Katayama T;Sato A;Fujie M;Baughman KW;Levine J;Gonzalez P;Cameron C;Fritzenwanker JH;Pani AM;Goto H;Kanda M;Arakaki N;Yamasaki S;Qu J;Cree A;Ding Y;Dinh HH;Dugan S;Holder M;Jhangiani SN;Kovar CL;Lee SL;Lewis LR;Morton D;Nazareth LV;Okwuonu G;Santibanez J;Chen R;Richards S;Muzny DM;Gillis A;Peshkin L;Wu M;Humphreys T;Su YH;Putnam NH;Schmutz J;Fujiyama A;Yu JK;Tagawa K;Worley KC;Gibbs RA;Kirschner MW;Lowe CJ;Satoh N;Rokhsar DS;Gerhart J
通讯作者:
Gerhart J
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
Zeng S;Zhang T;Madigan MC;Fernando N;Aggio-Bruce R;Zhou F;Pierce M;Chen Y;Huang L;Natoli R;Gillies MC;Zhu L
通讯作者:
Zhu L
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2214815120
发表时间:
2023-04-18
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Kalluraya, Chinmay A.;Weitzel, Alexander J.;Tsu, Brian V.;Daugherty, Matthew D.
通讯作者:
Daugherty, Matthew D.