期刊
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 35, 期 1, 页码 132-148出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx274
关键词
RNA editing; linkage; adaptive evolution; Drosophila; cephalopods; worms; mice; humans
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2016YFA0500800]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31771411, 91431101, 31571333]
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science
The adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editomes have been systematically characterized in various metazoan species, and many editing sites were found in clusters. However, it remains unclear whether the clustered editing sites tend to be linked in the same RNA molecules or not. By adopting a method originally designed to detect linkage disequilibrium of DNA mutations, we examined the editomes of ten metazoan species and detected extensive linkage of editing in Drosophila and cephalopods. The prevalent linkages of editing in these two clades, many of which are conserved between closely related species and might be associated with the adaptive proteomic recoding, are maintained by natural selection at the cost of genome evolution. Nevertheless, in worms and humans, we only detected modest proportions of linked editing events, the majority of which were not conserved. Furthermore, the linkage of editing in coding regions of worms and humans might be overall deleterious, which drives the evolution of DNA sites to escape promiscuous editing. Altogether, our results suggest that the linkage landscape of A-to-I editing has evolved during metazoan evolution. This present study also suggests that linkage of editing should be considered in elucidating the functional consequences of RNA editing.
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