Arginine kinases from the precious corals Corallium rubrum and Paracorallium japonicum: presence of two distinct arginine kinase gene lineages in cnidarians.
Arginine kinases from the precious corals Corallium rubrum and Paracorallium japonicum: presence of two distinct arginine kinase gene lineages in cnidarians.
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来自珍贵珊瑚 Corallium rubrum 和 Paracorallium japonicum 的精氨酸激酶:在刺胞动物中存在两种不同的精氨酸激酶基因谱系。
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10.1007/s10930-017-9745-7
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2017
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Matsuo;T.;Yano;D.;Uda;K.;Iwasaki;N.;and Suzuki;T.
The cDNA sequence of arginine kinase (AK) from the precious coralCorallium rubrumwas assembled from transcriptome sequence data, and the deduced amino acid sequence of 364 residues was shown to conserve the structural features characteristic of AK. Based on the amino acid sequence, the DNA codingC. rubrumAK was synthesized by overlap extension PCR to prepare the recombinant enzyme. The following kinetic parameters were determined for theC. rubrumenzyme:KaArg(0.10 mM),KiaArg(0.79 mM),KaATP(0.23 mM),KiaATP(2.16 mM), andkcat(74.3 s−1). These are comparable with the kinetic parameters of other AKs. However, phylogenetic analysis suggested that theC. rubrumAK sequence has a distinct origin from that of other known cnidarian AKs with unusual two-domain structure. Using oligomers designed from the sequence ofC. rubrumAK, the coding region of genomic DNA of another coralParacorallium japonicumAK was successfully amplified. Although the nucleotide sequences differed between the two AKs at 14 positions in the coding region, all involved synonymous substitutions, giving the identical amino acid sequence. TheP. japonicumAK gene contained one intron at a unique position compared with other cnidarian AK genes. Together with the observations from phylogenetic analysis, the comparison of exon/intron organization supports the idea that two distinct AK gene lineages are present in cnidarians. The difference in the nucleotide sequence between the coding regions ofC. rubrumandP. japonicumAKs was 1.28%, which is twice that (0.54%) of mitochondrial DNA, is consistent with the general observation that the mitochondrial genome evolves slower than the nuclear one in cnidarians.