Evidence of selection on the domesticated ERVWE1 env retroviral element involved in placentation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1895-1901

  Bonnaud, Bertrand ^a   Bouton, Olivier ^a   Oriol, Guy ^a   Cheynet, Valérie ^a   Duret, Laurent ^b   Mallet, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; Envelope; HERV W; Hominoid; Orthologous gene; Paralogous gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAG PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE LOCUS; GORILLA; HOMINID; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORANG UTAN; PROVIRUS; PSEUDOGENE; REPRODUCTION; RETROVIRUS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; RETROELEMENTS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W; HYLOBATES SP.; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 4944226432     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh206     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Altschul, S. F., W. Gish, W. Miller, E. W. Myers, and D. J. Lipman. 1990. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410.
2. An, D. S., Y. Xie, and I. S. Chen. 2001. Envelope gene of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W encodes a functional retrovirus envelope. J. Virol. 75:3488-3489.
3. Blond, J. L., F. Beseme, L. Duret, O. Bouton, F. Bedin, H. Perron, B. Mandrand, and F. Mallet. 1999. Molecular characterization and placental expression of HERV-W, a new human endogenous retrovirus family. J. Virol. 73:1175-1185.
4. Blond, J. L., D. Lavillette, V. Cheynet, O. Bouton, G. Oriol, S. Chapel-Fernandes, B. Mandrand, F. Mallet, and F. L. Cosset. 2000. An envelope glycoprotein of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W is expressed in the human placenta and fuses cells expressing the type D mammalian retrovirus receptor. J. Virol. 74:3321-3329.
5. Costas, J. 2002. Characterization of the intragenomic spread of the human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-W. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19:526-533.
6. Engelstadter, M., C. J. Buchholz, M. Bobkova, S. Steidl, H. Merget-Millitzer, R. A. Willemsen, J. Stitz, and K. Cichutek. 2001. Targeted gene transfer to lymphocytes using murine leukaemia virus vectors pseudotyped with spleen necrosis virus envelope proteins. Gene Ther. 8:1202-1206.
7. Frendo, J. L., D. Olivier, V. Cheynet, J. L. Blond, O. Bouton, M. Vidaud, M. Rabreau, D. Evain-Brion, and F. Mallet. 2003. Direct involvement of HERV-W Env glycoprotein in human trophoblast cell fusion and differentiation. Mol. Cell Biol. 23:3566-3574.
8. Galtier, N., M. Gouy, and C. Gautier. 1996. SEAVIEW and PHYLO_WIN: two graphic tools for sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. Comput. Appl. Biosci. 12:543-548.
9. Goodman, M., C. A. Porter, J. Czelusniak, S. L. Page, H. Schneider, J. Shoshani, G. Gunnell, and C. P. Groves. 1998. Toward a phylogenetic classification of primates based on DNA evidence complemented by fossil evidence. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 9:585-598.
10. Hellmann, I., S. Zollner, W. Enard, I. Ebersberger, B. Nickel, and S. Paabo. 2003. Selection on human genes as revealed by comparisons to chimpanzee cDNA. Genome Res. 13:831-837.
11. International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. 2001. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature 409:860-921.
12. Kafri, T. 2004. Gene delivery by lentivirus vectors an overview. Methods Mol. Biol 246:367-390.
13. Karlsson, H., S. Bachmann, J. Schroder, J. McArthur, E. F. Torrey, and R. H. Yolken. 2001. Retroviral RNA identified in the cerebrospinal fluids and brains of individuals with schizophrenia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:4634-4639.
14. Kim, H. S., O. Takenaka, and T. J. Crow. 1999. Isolation and phylogeny of endogenous retrovirus sequences belonging to the HERV-W family in primates. J. Gen. Virol. 80:2613-2619.
15. Kimura, M. 1980. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. J. Mol. Evol. 16:111-120.
16. Lavillette, D., M. Marin, A. Ruggieri, F. Mallet, F. L. Cosset, and D. Kabat. 2002. The envelope glycoprotein of human endogenous retrovirus type W uses a divergent family of amino acid transporters/cell surface receptors. J. Virol. 76:6442-6452.
17. Li, W. H. 1993. Unbiased estimation of the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution. J. Mol. Evol. 36:96-99.
18. Mallet, F., O. Bouton, S. Prud'homme, V. Cheynet, G. Oriol, B. Bonnaud, G. Lucotte, L. Duret, and B. Mandrand. 2004. The endogenous retroviral locus ERVWE1 is a bona fide gene involved in hominoid placental physiology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:1731-1736.
19. Mi, S., X. Lee, X. Li et al. (12 co-authors). 2000. Syncytin is a captive retroviral envelope protein involved in human placental morphogenesis. Nature 403:785-789.
20. Pavlicek, A., J. Paces, D. Elleder, and J. Hejnar. 2002. Processed pseudogenes of human endogenous retroviruses generated by LINEs: their integration, stability, and distribution. Genome Res. 12:391-399.
21. Perriere, G., and J. Thioulouse. 1996. On-line tools for sequence retrieval and multivariate statistics in molecular biology. Comput. Appl. Biosci. 12:63-69.
22. Perron, H., J. A. Garson, F. Bedin et al. (13 co-authors). 1997. Molecular identification of a novel retrovirus repeatedly isolated from patients with multiple sclerosis. The Collaborative Research Group on Multiple Sclerosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:7583-7588.
23. Rein, A., J. Mirro, J. G. Haynes, S. M. Ernst, and K. Nagashima. 1994. Function of the cytoplasmic domain of a retroviral transmembrane protein: p15E-p2E cleavage activates the membrane fusion capability of the murine leukemia virus Env protein. J. Virol. 68:1773-1781.
24. Taylor, G. M., and D. A. Sanders. 2003. Structural criteria for regulation of membrane fusion and virion incorporation by the murine leukemia virus TM cytoplasmic domain. Virology 312:295-305.
25. Thompson, J. D., D. G. Higgins, and T. J. Gibson. 1994. ClustalW: 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.
26. Voisset, C., O. Bouton, F. Bedin, L. Duret, B. Mandrand, F. Mallet, and G. Paranhos-Baccala. 2000. Chromosomal distribution and coding capacity of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W family. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 16:731-740.
27. Yang, Z., R. Nielsen, N. Goldman, and A. M. Pedersen. 2000. Codon-substitution models for heterogeneous selection pressure at amino acid sites. Genetics 155:431-449.
28. Yoder, A. D., and Z. Yang. 2000. Estimation of primate speciation dates using local molecular clocks. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:1081-1090.