期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
卷 68, 期 5, 页码 448-460出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-009-9202-0
关键词
Protein structure; Conformational modulation; Atavism; Epitope analysis; Troponin
资金
- National Institutes of Health [AR048816, HL078773]
- National Aeronautic and Space Administration [NNA04Ck26G]
Material remains of ancestor nucleotides and proteins are largely unavailable, thus sequence comparison among homologous genes in present-day organisms forms the core of current knowledge of molecular evolution. Variation in protein three-dimensional structure is a basis for functional diversity. To study the evolution of three-dimensional structures in related proteins would significantly improve our understanding of protein evolution and function. A protein may contain ancestor conformations that have been allosterically suppressed by evolutionarily additive structures. Using monoclonal antibody probes to detect such conformation in proteins after removing the suppressor structure, our study demonstrates three-dimensional structure evidence for the evolutionary relationship between troponin I and troponin T, two subunits of the troponin complex in the Ca2+-regulatory system of striated muscle, and among their muscle type-specific isoforms. The experimental data show the feasibility of detecting evolutionarily suppressed history-telling structural states in proteins by removing conformational modulator segments added during evolution. In addition to identifying structural modifications that were critical to the emergence of diverged proteins, investigating this novel mode of evolution will help us to understand the origin and functional potential of protein structures.
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