Genes of the lipase family: comparison of nucleic and proteinic sequences] |
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Authors: | A Raisonnier D Brault L Noe J Etienne J Hamelin J C Chuat I Dugail A Quignard-Boulange M Lavau F Galibert |
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Institution: | Laboratoire des Lipides et des Lipoprotéines, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrère, Paris. |
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Abstract: | Vertebrates' plasmatic apolipoproteins and a few number of lipases in their metabolism present sequence homologies. They are grouped in genes families. The four exons apolipoproteins gene family includes nine human genes: the divergence rate of their sequences allows to place the first ancestral gene very high in the phylogenetic tree of the evolution. However, a more recent duplication of apolipoprotein C-I gene dating from 40 millions years, may be a phylogenetic marker for the radiation of Monkeys. Pancreatic lipase and isoforms, lipoprotein-lipase and hepatic triacylglycerol-lipase form by their homologies a "superfamily" of genes, which also includes yolk proteins of Dipterians eggs. Sequence homologies of PL, LPL and HL are analysed and compared with multiple alignments of amino-acids and nucleotides on spreadsheets. From these comparisons we may characterize four classes of phylogenetic markers: 1) repetitive DNA sequence (Alu, B1, PRE-1) appeared during Mammals evolution, 2) short insertions or deletions (within N-terminal domain) and a gene conversion in guinea-pig lineage, 3) a progressive reduction of intron number during the lipases evolution, 4) several duplications of genes which have produced the five genes of this superfamily currently known in the human genome. |
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