The correlation of protein structure and evolution of a protein-coding gene: phylogenetic inference using cytochrome oxidase III |
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Authors: | Griffiths CS |
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Institution: | Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA. csg@amnh.org |
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Abstract: | Discriminating phylogenetic signal from noise in DNA sequence data is a
difficult problem in phylogenetic inference at higher systematic levels.
For protein-coding genes, noise at synonymous (silent) positions can be
filtered by deleting entire codon positions or types of change at a codon
position. This method is not appropriate for replacement sites, because
changes at each site within a codon may not be independent. This research
presents a method using information from protein structure to evaluate
variation in replacement sites. Analysis of the correlation of amino acid
variation with protein structure identified rapidly evolving codons in the
COIII gene. In a series of phylogenetic analyses attempting to recover a
known set of vertebrate relationships, downweighting these labile codons
produced the most accurate results. Structural correlates of variable and
invariant residues identified in this study can be used to increase the
accuracy of models used for phylogenetic inference. Viewing amino acid
variation within a phylogenetic framework provided insight into residue
changes important in the secondary and tertiary structures of the molecule,
changes that were correlated between pairs of neighboring residues or
between residues in neighboring helices.
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