Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 11, 899-910, Copyright © 1994 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
AL Hughes
The ATP-binding-cassette transmembrane transporters (ABC transporters)
known from vertebrates belong to four major subfamilies: (1) the P-
glycoproteins (Pgp); (2) the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance
regulators (CFTR); (3) the Tap proteins encoded with the major
histocompatibility complex of mammals; and (4) the peroxisomal membrane
proteins. Both Pgp and CFTR have a structure suggesting a past internal
gene duplication; a phylogenetic analysis indicated that these duplications
occurred independently, while an independent tandem gene duplication
occurred in the case of the Tap family. Both the Pgp and Tap proteins show
evidence of relationship to bacterial ABC transporters lacking internal
duplication, and both are significantly more closely related to the HlyB
and MsbA families of transporters from purple bacteria than they are to ABC
transporters from nonpurple bacteria. The simplest hypothesis to explain
this observation is that eukaryotic Pgp and Tap genes are descended from a
mitochondrial gene or genes that were subsequently translocated to the
nuclear genome. The Pgp genes of eukaryotes are characterized by a
remarkable degree of convergent evolution between the ATP-binding cassettes
of their N- terminal and C-terminal halves, whereas no such convergence is
seen between the two halves of CFTR genes or between the duplicated Tap
genes. Exon 13 of the CFTR gene, which encodes a putative regulatory domain
not found in other ABC transporters apart from CFTR, showed high levels of
both synonymous and nonsynonymous difference in comparisons among different
mammalian species, suggesting that this region is a mutational hot spot.
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Evolution of the ATP-binding-cassette transmembrane transporters of vertebrates
Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
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