Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 12, 1048-1062, Copyright © 1995 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
CE Norris, PJ diIorio, RJ Schultz and LE Hightower
The 70-kilodalton heat shock protein (hsp70) family of molecular
chaperones, which contains both stress-inducible and normally abundant
constitutive members, is highly conserved across distantly related taxa.
Analysis of this protein family in individuals from an outbred population
of tropical topminnows, Poeciliopsis gracilis, showed that while
constitutive hsp70 family members showed no variation in protein isoforms,
inducibly synthesized hsp70 was polymorphic. Several species of
Poeciliopsis adapted to desert environments exhibited lower levels of
inducible hsp70 polymorphism than the tropical species, but constitutive
forms were identical to those in P. gracilis, as they were in the
confamilial species Gambusia affinis. These differences suggest that
inducible and constitutive members of this family are under different
evolutionary constraints and may indicate differences in their function
within the cell. Also, northern desert species of Poeciliopsis synthesize a
subset of the inducible hsp70 isoforms seen in tropical species. This
distribution supports the theory that ancestral tropical fish migrated
northward and colonized desert streams; the subsequent decrease in
variation of inducible hsp70 may have been due to genetic drift or a
consequence of adaptation to the desert environment. Higher levels of
variability were found when the 30- kilodalton heat shock protein (hsp30)
family was analyzed within different strains of two desert species of
Poeciliopsis and also in wild-caught individuals of Gambusia affinis. In
both cases the distribution of hsp30 isoform diversity was similar to that
seen previously with allozyme polymorphisms.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Variation in heat shock proteins within tropical and desert species of poeciliid fishes
Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-3044, USA.
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