Molecular evolution and structure of α-actinin

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1024-1031

  Virel, Ana ^a   Backman, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

actinin; Evolution; Phylogeny; Spectrin repeat; Spectrin superfamily

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; SPECTRIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOSIS; GENE DUPLICATION; INVERTEBRATE; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOON; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

ACTININ; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE COMPONENTS; INVERTEBRATES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATES;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442676448     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh094     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Addis, M. F., P. Rappelli, G. Delogu, F. Carta, P. Cappuccinelli, and P. L. Fiori. 1998. Cloning and molecular characterization of a cDNA clone coding for Trichomonas vaginalis alpha-actinin and intracellular localization of the protein. Infect. Immun. 66:4924-4931.
2. Bailey, G. B., P. S. Shen, M. J. Beanan, and N. E. McCoomer. 1992. Actin associated proteins of Entamoeba histolytica. Arch. Med. Res. 23:129-132.
3. Baines, A. J. 2003. Comprehensive analysis of all triple helical repeats in beta-spectrins reveals patterns of selective evolutionary conservation. Cell. Mol. Biol. Lett. 8:195-214.
4. Barstead, R. J., L. Kleiman, and R. H. Waterston. 1991. Cloning, sequencing and mapping of an alpha-actinin gene from the nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans. Cell Motil. Cytoskelet. 20:69-78.
5. Beggs, A. H., T. J. Byers, J. H. M. Knoll, F. M. Boyce, G. A. P. Bruns, and L. M. Kunkel. 1992. Cloning and characterization of two human skeletal muscle alpha-actinin genes located on chromosomes 1 and 11. J. Biol. Chem. 267:9281-9288.
6. Blanchard, A., V. Ohanian, and D. Critchley. 1989. The structure and function of alpha-actinin. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 10:280-289.
7. Bricheux, G., G. Coffe, N. Pradel, and G. Brugerolle. 1998. Evidence for an uncommon α-actinin protein in Trichomonas vaginalis. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 95:241-249.
8. Dehal, P., Y. Satou, R. K. Campbell et al. (87 co-authors) 2002. The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate origins. Science. 298:2157-2167.
9. Dixson, J. D., M. J. Forstner, and D. M. Garcia. 2003. The α-actinin gene family: A revised classification. J. Mol. Evol. 56:1-10.
10. Djinovic-Carugo, K., M. Gautel, J. Ylanne, and P. Young. 2002. The spectrin repeat: a structural platform for cytoskeletal protein assemblies. FEBS Lett. 513:119-123.
11. Djinovic-Carugo, K., P. Young, M. Gautel, and M. Saraste. 1999. Structure of the α-actinin rod: molecular basis for cross-linking of actin filaments. Cell. 98:537-546.
12. Dubreuil, R. R. 1991. Structure and evolution of the actin crosslinking proteins. Bioessays. 13:219-226.
13. Durand, D. 2003. Vertebrate evolution: doubling and shuffling with a full deck. Trends Genet. 19:2-5.
14. Felsenstein, J. 1989. PHYLIP (phylogeny inference package) Version 3.2. Caldistics. 5:164-166.
15. Foster, P. G., and D. A. Hickey. 1999. Compositional bias may affect both DNA-based and protein-based phylogenetic reconstructions. J. Mol. Evol. 48:284-290.
16. Fyrberg, E., M. Kelly, E. Ball, C. Fyrberg, and M. C. Reedy. 1990. Molecular genetics of Drosophila alpha-actinin: mutant alleles disrupt Z disc integrity and muscle insertions. J. Cell Biol. 110:1999-2011.
17. Gee, H. 2002. Genomics: return of a little squirt. Nature. 420:755-756.
18. Germot, A., H. Philippe, and H. Le Guyader. 1997. Evidence for loss of mitochondria in Microsporidia from a mitochondrial-type HSP70 in Nosema locustae. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 87:159-168.
19. Hirt, R. P., J. M. Logsdon, Jr., B. Healy, M. W. Dorey, W. F. Doolittle, and T. M. Embley. 1999. Microsporidia are related to Fungi: evidence from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II and other proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:580-585.
20. Huelsenbeck, J. P., and F. Ronquist. 2001. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17:754-755.
21. Hughes, A. L. 1999. Phylogenies of developmentally important proteins do not support the hypothesis of two rounds of genome duplication early in vertebrate history. J. Mol. Evol. 48:565-576.
22. Janssen, K. P., L. Eichinger, P. A. Janmey, A. A. Noegel, M. Schliwa, W. Witke, and M. Schleicher. 1996. Viscoelastic properties of F-actin solutions in the presence of normal and mutated actin-binding proteins. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 325:183-189.
23. Keeling, P. J. 2003. Congruent evidence from alpha-tubulin and beta-tubulin gene phylogenies for a zygomycete origin of microsporidia. Fungal. Genet. Biol. 38:298-309.
24. Keeling, P. J., and N. M. Fast. 2002. Microsporidia: biology and evolution of highly reduced intracellular parasites. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 56:93-116.
25. Keeling, P. J., M. A. Luker, and J. D. Palmer. 2000. Evidence from beta-tubulin phylogeny that microsporidia evolved from within the fungi. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:23-31.
26. Kumar, S., K. Tamura, I. B. Jakobsen, and M. Nei. 2001. MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics. 17:1244-1245.
27. Leipe, D. D., J. H. Gunderson, T. A. Nerad, and M. L. Sogin. 1993. Small subunit ribosomal RNA+ of Hexamita inflata and the quest for the first branch in the eukaryotic tree. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 59:41-48.
28. Mills, M., N. Yang, R. Weinberger, D. L. Vander Woude, A. H. Beggs, S. Easteal, and K. North. 2001. Differential expression of the actin-binding proteins, alpha-actinin-2 and -3, in different species: implications for the evolution of functional redundancy. Hum. Mol. Genet. 10:1335-1346.
29. Nickel, R., T. Jacobs, B. Urban, H. Scholze, H. Bruhn, and M. Leippe. 2000. Two novel calcium-binding proteins from cytoplasmic granules of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. FEBS Lett. 486:112-116.
30. Norwood, F. L. M., A. J. Sutherland-Smith, N. H. Keep, and J. Kendrick-Jones. 2000. The structure of the N-terminal actin-binding domain of human dystrophin and how mutations in this domain may cause Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy. Struct. Fold Des. 8:481-491.
31. Pascual, J., J. Castresana, and M. Saraste. 1997. Evolution of the spectrin repeat. BioEssays. 19:811-817.
32. Pennisi, E. 2002. Comparative genomics: tunicate genome shows a little backbone. Science. 298:2111-2112.
33. Peyretaillade, E., V. Broussolle, P. Peyret, G. Metenier, M. Gouy, and C.P. Vivares. 1998. Microsporidia, amitochondrial protists, possess a 70-kDa heat shock protein gene of mitochondrial evolutionary origin. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15:683-689.
34. Roger, A. J., and J. D. Silberman. 2002. Cell evolution: mitochondria in hiding. Nature. 418:827-829.
35. Satou, Y., L. Yamada, Y. Mochizuki et al. (14 co-authors) 2002. A cDNA resource from the basal chordate Ciona intestinalis. Genesis. 33:153-154.
36. 2+-dependent actin binding. J. Mol. Biol. 310:845-858.
37. Thomas, G. H., E. C. Newbern, C. C. Korte, M. A. Bales, S. V. Muse, A. G. Clark, and D. P. Kiehart. 1997. Intragenic duplication and divergence in the spectrin superfamily of proteins. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14:1285-1295.
38. Thompson, J. D., T. J. Gibson, F. Plewniak, F. Jeanmougin, and D. G. Higgins. 1997. The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:4876-4882.
39. Viel, A. 1999. α-Actinin and spectrin structures: an unfolding family story. FEBS Lett. 460:391-394.
40. Weiss, L. M. 2001. Microsporidia: emerging pathogenic protists. Acta Trop. 78:89-102.
41. Williams, B. A., R. P. Hirt, J. M. Lucocq, and T. M. Embley. 2002. A mitochondrial remnant in the microsporidian Trachipleistophora hominis. Nature. 418:865-869.
42. 2+-binding domains in non-muscle type α-actinin: biochemical and genetic analysis. J. Cell Biol. 121:599-606.
43. Wu, J. Q., J. Bahler, and J. R. Pringle. 2001. Roles of a fimbrin and an α-actinin-like protein in fission yeast cell polarization and cytokinesis. Mol. Biol. Cell. 12:1061-1077.
44. Ylanne, J., K. Scheffzek, P. Young, and M. Saraste. 2001. Crystal structure of the alpha-actinin rod reveals an extensive torsional twist. Structure (Camb). 9:597-604.