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- Title
Birth and adaptive evolution of a hominoid gene that supports high neurotransmitter flux.
- Authors
Burki, Fabien; Kaessmann, Henrik
- Abstract
The enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) is important for recycling the chief excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate, during neurotransmission. Human GDH exists in housekeeping and brain-specific isotypes encoded by the genes GLUD1 and GLUD2, respectively. Here we show that GLUD2 originated by retroposition from GLUD1 in the hominoid ancestor less than 23 million years ago. The amino acid changes responsible for the unique brain-specific properties of the enzyme derived from GLUD2 occurred during a period of positive selection after the duplication event.
- Publication
Nature genetics, 2004, Vol 36, Issue 10, p1061
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng1431