Journal
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 27-40Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.009
Keywords
G protein; GPCRs; Signal transduction; Holozoans; Gene gain/losses
Funding
- Swedish Research Council
- Ahlens Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Fonden [NNF12OC1016287, NNF15OC0016184, NNF13OC0005723] Funding Source: researchfish
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Heterotrimeric G proteins perform a crucial role as molecular switches controlling various cellular responses mediated by G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling pathway. Recent data have shown that the vertebrate-like G protein families are found across metazoans and their closest unicellular relatives. However, an overall evolutionary hierarchy of vertebrate-like G proteins, including gene family annotations and in particular mapping individual gene gain/loss events across diverse holozoan lineages is still incomplete. Here, with more expanded invertebrate taxon sampling, we have reconstructed phylogenetic trees for each of the G protein classes/families and provide a robust classification and hierarchy of vertebrate-like heterotrimeric G proteins. Our results further extend the evidence that the common ancestor (CA) of holozoans had at least five ancestral G alpha genes corresponding to all major vertebrate Ga classes and contain a total of eight genes including two G beta and one G gamma. Our results also indicate that the GNAI/O-like gene likely duplicated in the last CA of metazoans to give rise to GNAI- and GNAO-like genes, which are conserved across invertebrates. Moreover, homologs of GNB1-4 paralogon- and GNB5 family-like genes are found in most metazoans and that the unicellular holozoans encode two ancestral G beta genes. Similarly, most bilaterian invertebrates encode two G gamma genes which include a representative of the GNG gene cluster and a putative homolog of GNG13. Interestingly, our results also revealed key evolutionary events such as the Drosophila melanogaster eye specific GO subunit that is found conserved in most arthropods and several previously unidentified species specific expansions within G alpha i/o, G alpha s, G alpha q, G alpha 12/13 classes and the GNB1-4 paralogon. Also, we provide an overall proposed evolutionary scenario on the expansions of all G protein families in vertebrate tetraploidizations. Our robust classification/hierarchy is essential to further understand the differential roles of GPCR/G protein mediated intracellular signaling system across various metazoan lineages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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