Title |
The Evolutionary History of Prosaposin: Two Successive Tandem-Duplication Events Gave Rise to the Four Saposin Domains in Vertebrates
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Published in |
Journal of Molecular Evolution, January 2002
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DOI | 10.1007/s00239-001-0014-0 |
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Authors |
Einat Hazkani-Covo, Neta Altman, Mia Horowitz, Dan Graur |
Abstract |
Prosaposin is a multifunctional protein encoded by a single-copy gene. It contains four saposin domains (A, B, C, and D) occurring as tandem repeats connected by linker sequences. Because the saposin domains are similar to one another, it is deduced that they were created by sequential duplications of an ancestral domain. There are two types of evolutionary scenarios that may explain the creation of the four-domain gene: (1) two rounds of tandem internal gene duplication and (2) three rounds of duplications. An evolutionary and phylogenetic analysis of saposin DNA and amino acid sequences from human, mouse, rat, chicken, and zebrafish indicates that the first evolutionary scenario is the most likely. Accordingly, an ancestral saposin-unit duplication produced a two-domain gene, which, subsequently, underwent a second complete tandem duplication to give rise to the present four-domain structure of the prosaposin gene. |
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