PUBLICATION
Reconsidering the evolution of eukaryotic selenoproteins: a novel nonmammalian family with scattered phylogenetic distribution
- Authors
- Castellano, S., Novoselov, S.V., Kryukov, G.V., Lescure, A., Blanco, E., Krol, A., Gladyshev, V.N., and Guigo, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-040109-6
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- EMBO reports 5(1): 71-77 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Gladyshev, Vadim, Krol, Alain, Kryukov, Gregory, Lescure, Alain
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Zebrafish Proteins
- Humans
- Takifugu/genetics
- Selenocysteine/genetics
- Evolution, Molecular*
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Selenoproteins
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Proteins/genetics*
- Models, Genetic
- Base Sequence
- PubMed
- 14710190 Full text @ EMBO Rep.
Citation
Castellano, S., Novoselov, S.V., Kryukov, G.V., Lescure, A., Blanco, E., Krol, A., Gladyshev, V.N., and Guigo, R. (2004) Reconsidering the evolution of eukaryotic selenoproteins: a novel nonmammalian family with scattered phylogenetic distribution. EMBO reports. 5(1):71-77.
Abstract
While the genome sequence and gene content are available for an increasing number of organisms, eukaryotic selenoproteins remain poorly characterized. The dual role of the UGA codon confounds the identification of novel selenoprotein genes. Here, we describe a comparative genomics approach that relies on the genome-wide prediction of genes with in-frame TGA codons, and the subsequent comparison of predictions from different genomes, wherein conservation in regions flanking the TGA codon suggests selenocysteine coding function. Application of this method to human and fugu genomes identified a novel selenoprotein family, named SelU, in the puffer fish. The selenocysteine-containing form also occurred in other fish, chicken, sea urchin, green algae and diatoms. In contrast, mammals, worms and land plants contained cysteine homologues. We demonstrated selenium incorporation into chicken SelU and characterized the SelU expression pattern in zebrafish embryos. Our data indicate a scattered evolutionary distribution of selenoproteins in eukaryotes, and suggest that, contrary to the picture emerging from data available so far, other taxa-specific selenoproteins probably exist.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping