Autor según el artículo: José Segarra; Javier U. Chicote; Rob DeSalle; Tung-Tien Sun; Antonio García-España
Departamento: Bioquímica i Biotecnologia Medicina i Cirurgia
Autor/es de la URV: SEGARRA TOMAS, JOSEP; Javier U. Chicote; Rob DeSalle; Tung-Tien Sun; GARCIA-ESPAÑA MONSONÍS, ANTONIO ENRIQUE
Palabras clave: Està en blanc
Resumen: 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.
Grupo de investigación: Grup de Recerca Biomèdica HJ23
Áreas temáticas: Health sciences Ciencias de la salud Ciències de la salut
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1932-6203
Identificador del autor: N/D; N/D; N/D; N/D; N/D
Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-01-31
Volumen de revista: 12
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170196
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI del artículo: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170196
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2017
Página inicial: Art.num. e0170196
Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
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