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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad191
Keywords
positive selection; reproduction; neofunctionalization; duplication; intrinsic disorder
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The evolution and diversification of proteins play a critical role in cell fate determination. This study demonstrates that duplication of genes encoding CHD3 proteins led to distinct evolutionary trajectories and antagonistic impacts on seed development. The results provide insights into the selective pressures on transcriptomes during plant reproduction and the diversification of the CHD3 family.
The evolution and diversification of proteins capable of remodeling domains has been critical for transcriptional reprogramming during cell fate determination in multicellular eukaryotes. Chromatin remodeling proteins of the CHD3 family have been shown to have important and antagonistic impacts on seed development in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, yet the basis of this functional divergence remains unknown. In this study, we demonstrate that genes encoding the CHD3 proteins PICKLE (PKL) and PICKLE-RELATED 2 (PKR2) originated from a duplication event during the diversification of crown Brassicaceae, and that these homologs have undergone distinct evolutionary trajectories since this duplication, with PKR2 fast evolving under positive selection, while PKL is subject to purifying selection. We find that the rapid evolution of PKR2 under positive selection reduces the encoded protein's intrinsic disorder, possibly suggesting a tertiary structure configuration which differs from that of PKL. Our whole genome transcriptome analysis in seeds of pkr2 and pkl mutants reveals that they act antagonistically on the expression of specific sets of genes, providing a basis for their differing roles in seed development. Our results provide insights into how gene duplication and neofunctionalization can lead to differing and antagonistic selective pressures on transcriptomes during plant reproduction, as well as on the evolutionary diversification of the CHD3 family within seed plants.
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