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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 1001-1010出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi086
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zebrafish; RH2 opsins; visual pigments; gene duplication; spectral differentiation; ancestral sequence
We previously reported that zebrafish have four tandemly duplicated green (RH2) opsin genes (RH2-1, RH2-2, RH2-3, and RH2-4). Absorption spectra vary widely among the four photopigments reconstituted with 11-cis retinal, with their peak absorption spectra being 467, 476, 488, and 505 nm, respectively. In this study, we inferred the ancestral amino acid (aa) sequences of the zebrafish RH2 opsins by likelihood-based Bayesian statistics and reconstituted the ancestral opsins by site-directed mutagenesis. The ancestral pigment (A1) to the four zebrafish RH2 pigments and that (A3) to RH2-3 and RH2-4 showed gimel(max) at 506 nm, while that (A2) to RH2-1 and RH2-2 showed gimel(max) at 474 nm, indicating that a spectral shift had occurred toward the shorter wavelength on the evolutionary lineages At to A2 by 32 nm, A2 to RH2-1 by 7 nm, and A3 to RH2-3 by 18 nm. Pigment chimeras and site-directed mutagenesis revealed a large contribution (similar to 15 nm) of glutamic acid to glutamine substitution at residue 122 (E122Q) to the A1 to A2 and A3 to RH2-3 spectral shifts. However, the remaining spectral differences appeared to result from complex interactive effects of a number of aa replacements, each of which has only a minor spectral contribution (1-3 nm). The four zebratish RH2 pigments cover nearly an entire range of gimel(max) distribution among vertebrate RH2 pigments and provide an excellent model to study spectral tuning mechanisms of RH2 in vertebrates.
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