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- Title
Detecting Changes in the Functional Constraints of Paralogous Genes.
- Authors
Marín, Ignacio; Fares, Mario Alí; González-Candelas, Fernando; Barrio, Eladio; Moya, Andrés
- Abstract
We describe a new procedure to determine whether regional alterations in the evolutionary constraints imposed on paralogous proteins have occurred. We used as models the A and B (alternatively called α and β) subunits of V/F/A-ATPases, originated by a gene duplication more than 3 billion years ago. Changes associated to three major splits (eubacteria versus Archaea-eukaryotes; Archaea versus eukaryotes; and among free-living bacteria and symbiotic mitochondria) were studied. Only in the first case, when we compared eubacterial or mitochondrial F-ATPases versus eukaryotic vacuolar V-ATPases or archaeal A-ATPases, constraint changes were observed. Modifications in the degree of regional constraining were not detected for the other two types of comparisons (V-ATPases versus A-ATPases and within F-ATPases, respectively). When the rates of evolution of the two subunits were compared, it was found that F-ATPases regulatory subunits evolved faster than catalytic subunits, but the opposite was true for A- and V-ATPases. Our results suggest that, even for universal and essential proteins, selective constraints may be occasionally altered. On the other hand, in some cases no changes were detected after periods of more than 2.2 billion years.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR evolution; COEVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL evolution; BIOLOGICAL adaptation; SELF-organizing systems; ARCHAEBACTERIA; ADENOSINE triphosphatase; PROTEINS
- Publication
Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2001, Vol 52, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0022-2844
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s002390010130