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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 375, 期 4, 页码 623-627出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.08.047
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Estrogen receptor evolution; Invertebrate estrogen receptors; Estrogen-related receptor; Trichoplax; Lophotrochozoan estrogen receptors; Nuclear receptors
Although, as their names imply, estrogen receptors [ERs] and estrogen-related receptors [ERRs] are related transcription factors, their evolutionary relationships to each other are not fully understood. To elucidate the origins and evolution of ERs and ERRs, we searched for their orthologs in the recently sequenced genome of Trichoplax, the simplest known animal, and in the genomes of three lophotrochozoans: Capitella, an annelid worm, Helobdella robusta, a leech, and Lottia gigantea, a snail. BLAST searches found an ERR in Trichoplax, but no ER. BLAST searches also found ERRs in all three lophotrochozoans and invertebrate-like ERs in Capitella and Lottia, but not in Helobdella. Unexpectedly we find that the Capitella ER sequence is closest to ER beta, unlike the other invertebrate ER sequences, which are closest to ER alpha. Our database searches and phylogenetic analysis indicate that invertebrate ERs evolved in a lophotrochozoan and steroid-binding ERs evolved in a deuterostome. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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