PUBLICATION
The vertebrate muscle-specific RING finger protein family includes MuRF4 - A novel, conserved E3-ubiquitin ligase
- Authors
- Macqueen, D.J., Fuentes, E.N., Valdés, J.A., Molina, A., Martin, S.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141203-56
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- FEBS letters 588: 4390-4397 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Molina, Alfredo
- Keywords
- E3-ubiquitin ligase, Evolution, Muscle-specific RING finger family, Novel MuRF: MuRF4, Retrotransposition, Striated muscle
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Conserved Sequence*
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Genomics
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RING Finger Domains*
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/chemistry*
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/metabolism*
- Vertebrates*/genetics
- PubMed
- 25448676 Full text @ FEBS Lett.
Citation
Macqueen, D.J., Fuentes, E.N., Valdés, J.A., Molina, A., Martin, S.A. (2014) The vertebrate muscle-specific RING finger protein family includes MuRF4 - A novel, conserved E3-ubiquitin ligase. FEBS letters. 588:4390-4397.
Abstract
Muscle-specific RING finger (MuRF) proteins are E3-ubiquitin ligases and key regulators of muscle growth and turnover. Here, using a range of phylogenomic approaches, we established the complete-definitive MuRF family of vertebrates. Adding to recognized MuRF1, 2 and 3, we describe a novel family member, hereafter MuRF4, which was independently lost during placental mammal and bird evolution, but is otherwise conserved. MuRF4 transcripts were expressed in heart and skeletal muscles of zebrafish, but were barely detectable in striated muscles of adult anole lizards. We also demonstrate that MuRF1 underwent retrotransposition in the teleost fish ancestor, before the retrogene fully replaced the original gene and muscle-specific function.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping