Author, as appears in the article.: José Segarra; Javier U. Chicote; Rob DeSalle; Tung-Tien Sun; Antonio García-España
Department: Bioquímica i Biotecnologia Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: SEGARRA TOMAS, JOSEP; Javier U. Chicote; Rob DeSalle; Tung-Tien Sun; GARCIA-ESPAÑA MONSONÍS, ANTONIO ENRIQUE
Keywords: Està en blanc
Abstract: Uroplakins are a widespread group of vertebrate integral membrane proteins that belong to two different families: UPK1a and UPK1b belong to the large tetraspanin (TSPAN) gene family, and UPK3a, UPK3b, UPK3c, UPK3d, UPK2a and UPK2b form a family of their own, the UPK2/3 tetraspanin-associated family. In a previous study, we reported that uroplakins first appeared in vertebrates, and that uroplakin tetraspanins (UPK1a and UPK1b) should have originated by duplication of an ancestor tetraspanin gene. However, the evolutionary origin of the UPK2/3 family remains unclear. In this study, we provide evidence that the UPK2/3 family originated by gene duplication and domain loss from a protoPTPRQ-like basal deuterostome gene. PTPRQs are members of the subtype R3 tyrosine phosphatase receptor (R3 PTPR) family, which are characterized by having a unique modular composition of extracellular fibronectin (FN3) repeats, a transmembrane helix, and a single intracytoplasmic phosphotyrosine phophatase (PTP) domain. Our assumption of a deuterostome protoPTPRQ-like gene as an ancestor of the UPK2/3 family by gene duplication and loss of its PTP and fibronectin (FN3) domains, excluding the one closest to the transmembrane helix, is based on the following: (i) phylogenetic analyses, (ii) the existence of an identical intron/exon gene pattern between UPK2/3 and the corresponding genetic region in R3 PTPRs, (iii) the conservation of cysteine patterns and protein motifs between UPK2/3 and PTPRQ proteins and, (iv) the existence in tunicates, the closest organisms to vertebrates, of two sequences related to PTPRQ; one with the full subtype R3 modular characteristic and another without the PTP domain but with a short cytoplasmic tail with some sequence similarity to that of UPK3a. This finding will facilitate further studies on the structure and function of these important proteins with implications in human diseases.
Research group: Grup de Recerca Biomèdica HJ23
Thematic Areas: Health sciences Ciencias de la salud Ciències de la salut
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1932-6203
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Record's date: 2017-01-31
Journal volume: 12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170196
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170196
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2017
First page: Art.num. e0170196
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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