The cephalochordate Branchiostoma genome contains 26 intermediate filament (IF) genes: implications for evolution of chordate IF proteins
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The cephalochordate Branchiostoma genome contains 26 intermediate filament (IF) genes: implications for evolution of chordate IF proteins
Abstract
We analyzed the draft genome of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae (B. floridae) for genes encoding intermediate filament (IF) proteins. From 26 identified IF genes 13 were not reported before. Four of the new IF genes belong to the previously established Branchiostoma IF group A, four to the Branchiostoma IF group B, one is homologous to the type II keratin E2 while the remaining four new IF sequences N1 to N4 could not be readily classified in any of the previously established Branchiostoma IF groups. All eleven identified A and B2-type IF genes are located on the same genomic scaffold and arose due to multiple cephalochordate-specific duplications. Another IF gene cluster, identified in the B. floridae genome, contains three keratins (E1, Y1, D1), two keratin-like IF genes (C2, X1), one new IF gene (N1) and one IF unrelated gene, but does not show any similarities to the well defined vertebrate type I or type II keratin gene clusters. In addition, some type III sequence features were documented in the new IF protein N2, which, however, seems to share a common ancestry with the Branchiostoma keratins D1 and two keratin-related genes C. Thus, a few type I and type II keratin genes existed in a common ancestor of cephalochordates and vertebrates, which after separation of these two lineages gave rise to the known complexities of the vertebrate cytoplasmic type I-IV IF proteins, as well as to the multiple keratin and related IF genes in cephalochordates, due to multiple gene duplications, deletions and sequence divergences.
Keywords: Branchiostoma; Cephalochordates; Intermediate filament; Lamin; Phylogeny.
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