期刊
GENE
卷 626, 期 -, 页码 241-250出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2017.05.036
关键词
Basic helix-loop-helix; Transcription factor; Cattle; Phylogenetic analysis; Episodic positive selection; WebLogo
资金
- Shanghai Huaxin High Biotechnology Company Limited
Basic helix-loop-helix (BHLH) transcription factors comprise a large family of regulatory proteins and play critical roles in the developmental processes of higher organisms. Complete lists of BHLH family members have been identified in about 50 organisms, including fruit fly, zebrafish, mouse, giant panda, worm, yeast, rice and apple. Cattle, Bos taurus, is important for agriculture and animal nutrition, and is also a good model organism for health research. In the present study, 116 putative BHLHs were identified in the cattle genome. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that 111 Bos taurus BHLH (BtBHLH: Bos taurus BHLH) members belong to 44 families, with 48, 26, 16, 4, 13 and 4 members in group A, B, C, D, E and F respectively, and the remaining 5 BtBHLHs are orphan members. All of them were named and assigned into the corresponding BHLH families based on acceptable bootstrap values from in-group phylogenetic analyses with orthologous BHLHs from mouse and other mammalian species. A comparison between annotations deposited in the GenBank and KEGG databases with our analyses indicated that the annotations of 2 of the 116 BtBHLH members were inconsistent with our analytical results. Microarray evidence and expressed sequence tags of only 14 BtBHLH genes was now not available. Chromosomal locations of the BtBHLHs showed that the distribution of the BtBHLHs was uneven and some genes, e.g., BtOligo, BtHes and BtMyf6, may arise from gene duplication. The test of positive selection showed episodic positive selection occurs only in 5 families among the studied mammalian BHLHs. These results provide a solid basis for further studies on BHLH protein regulation of key growth and developmental processes.
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