Identification of major phylogenetic branches of inhibitory ligand- gated channel receptors

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-333

  Xue, Hong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid(A); Classification; Evolution; Glutamate; Glycine; Ligand gated Channel; Phylogeny; Receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; LIGAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; LYMNAEA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTOR BINDING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; VERTEBRATES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031690829     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006390     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Antkiewicz-Michaluk L, Guidotti A, Kruger KE (1988) Molecular characterization and mitochondrial density of a recognition site for peripheral-type benzodiazepine ligands. Mol Pharmacol 34:272-278
2. Arena JP, Liu KK, Paress PS, Cully DF (1991) Avermectin-sensitive chloride currents induced by Caenorhabditis elegans RNA in Xenopus oocytes. Mol Pharmacol 40:368-374
3. Arena JP, Liu KK, Paress PS, Schaeffer JM, Cully DF (1992) Expression of a glutamate-activated chloride current in Xenopus oocytes injected with Caenorhabditis elegans RNA: evidence for modulation by avermectin. Mol Brain Res 15:339-348
4. Betz H (1990) Ligand-gated ion channels in the brain: the amino acid receptor superfamily. Neuron 5:383-392
5. Cully DF, Vassilatis DK, Liu KK, Paress PS, Van der Ploeg LHT, Schaeffer JM, Arena JP (1994) Cloning of an avermectin-sensitive glutamate-gated chloride channel from Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 371:707-711
6. Cully DF, Paress PS, Liu KK, Schaeffer JM, Arena JP (1996) Identification of a Drosophila melanogaster glutamate-gated chloride channel sensitive to the antiparasitic agent avermectin. J Biol Chem 271:20187-20191
7. A receptor subunit. Nature 385:820-823
8. Dayhoff MO (1979) Atlas of protein sequence and structure. Vol 5. Suppl 3, National Biomedical Research Foundation, Washington, DC
9. Felsentein J (1985) Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39:783-791
10. Felsenstein J (1993) PHYLIP (phylogeny inference package), version 3.5c. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle
11. Ffrench-Constant RH, Rocheleau TA, Steichen JC, Chalmers AE (1993) A point mutation in a Drosophila melanogaster GABA receptor confers insecticide resistance. Nature 363:449-451
12. Fitch WM (1971) Toward defining the course of evolution: minimum change for a specified tree topoloty. Syst Zool 20:406-416
13. Fitch WM, Margoliash E (1967) Construction of phylogenetic trees. Science 155:279-284
14. Garret M, Bascles L, Boue-Grabot E, Sartor P, Charron G, Bloch B and Margolskee RF (1997) An mRNA encoding a putative GABA-gated chloride channel is expressed in the human cardiac conduction system. J Neurochem 68:1382-1389
15. Garrett RA (1996) Genomes: Methanococcus jannaschii, the golden fleece. Curr Biol 6:1377-138
16. Geary TG, Klein RD, Vanover L, Bowman JW, Thompson DP (1992) The nervous system of helminths as targets for drugs. J Parasitol 78:215-230
17. Gundelfinger ED (1992) How complex is the nicotinic receptor system of insects? Trends Neurosci 15:206-211
18. Gundelfinger ED (1995) Evolution, desensitization of LGIC receptors. Trends Neurosci 18:297
19. Harvey RJ, Schmitt B, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Gundelfinger ED, Betz H, Darlison MG (1994) Sequence of a Drosophila melanogaster ligand-gated ion-channel polypeptide with an unusual amino-terminal extracellular domain. J Neurochem 62:2480-2483
20. Hedblom E and Kirkness EF (1997) A novel class of GABAA receptor subunit in tissues of the reproductive system. J Biol Chem 272: 15346-15350
21. A-type agonist recognition site. Br J Pharmacol 98:841-850
22. A receptor-like polypeptide: sequence and pattern of gene expression. FEBS Lett 326:112-116
23. Jukes TH, Cantor CR (1969) Evolution of protein molecules. In: Munro HN (ed) Mammalian protein metabolism. Academic Press, New York, pp 21-132
24. Karlin A (1993) Structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Curr Opin Neurobiol 3:299-309
25. Laughton DL, Amar M, Thomas P, Towner P, Harris P, Lunt GG, Wolstenholme AJ (1994) Cloning of a putative inhibitory amino acid receptor subunit from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus. Receptors Channels 2:155-163
26. Le Novére N, Changeux JP (1995) Molecular evolution of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: an example of multigene family in excitable cells. J Mol Evol 40:155-172
27. Marshall J, Buckingham SD, Shingai R, Lunt GG, Goosey MW, Darlison MG, Sattelle DB, Barnard EA (1990) Sequence and functional expression of a single α subunit of an insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. EMBO J 9:4391-4398
28. Martin RJ, Pennington AJ, Duittoz AH, Robertson S, Kusel JR (1991) The physiology and pharmacology of neuromuscular transmission in the nematode parasite. Ascaris suum. Parasitology 102 (Suppl):S41-S58
29. Ono JK, Salvaterra PM (1981) Snake alpha-toxin effects on cholinergic and noncholinergic response of Aplysia california neurons. J Neurosci 1:259-270
30. Ortells MO, Lunt GG (1995) Evolutionary history of the ligand-gated ion-channel superfamily of receptors. Trends Neurosci 18:121-127
31. Rich P et al. (1996) The EGCG extension to the Wisconsin Package Version 8.1.1, Sanger Center, Hinxton, England
32. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673-4680
33. Unwin N (1993) The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at 9 Å resolution. J Mol Biol 229:1101-1124
34. Walker RJ, Holden-Dye L (1991) Evolutionary aspects of transmitter molecules, their receptors and channels. Parasitology 102 (Suppl):S7-S29
35. Walker RJ, Colquhoun L, Holden-Dye L (1992) Pharmacological profiles of the GABA and acetylcholine receptors from the nematode, Ascaris suum. Acta Biol Hung 43:59-68
36. A/BZ receptor subtypes. In: Biggio G, Concas A, Costa E (eds) GABAergic synaptic transmission. Raven Press, New York, pp 29-40
37. Wilson R, Ainscough R, Anderson K, et al. (1994) 2.2 Mb of contiguous nucleotide sequence from chromosome III of C. elegans. Nature 368:32-38