Early evolution of metazoan serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases: identification of selected kinases in marine sponges |
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Authors: | Kruse M; Muller IM; Muller WE |
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Institution: | Abteilung fur Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universitat, Mainz, Germany. |
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Abstract: | The phylum Porifera (sponges) was the first to diverge from the common
ancestor of the Metazoa. In this study, six cDNAs coding for protein-
serine/threonine kinases (PS/TKs) are presented; they have been isolated
from libraries obtained from the demosponges Geodia cydonium and Suberites
domuncula and from the calcareous sponge Sycon raphanus. Sequence
alignments of the catalytic domains revealed that two major families of
PS/TK, the "conventional" (Ca(2+)-dependent) protein kinase C (PKC), the
cPKC subfamily, as well as the "novel" (Ca(2+)- independent) PKC (nPKC),
form two separate clusters. In each cluster, the sequence from S. raphanus
diverges first. To approach the question about the origin of
protein-tyrosine kinases (PTK), which are found only in Metazoa, we
analyzed two additional PS/TKs which have been cloned from S. domuncula:
the stress-responsive protein kinase (KRSvSD) and the
protein-kinase-C-related kinase (PRKvSD). The construction of the
phylogenetic tree, comprising the eight PS/TKs and the PTK cloned
previously from G. cydonium, revealed that the PTK derived from the branch
including the KRSvSD kinase. These data facilitate the first molecular
approach to elucidate the origin of metazoan PTK within the PS/TK
superfamily.
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