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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-9-26
pubmed:abstractText
Positive selection has been shown to be pervasive in sex-related proteins of many metazoan taxa. However, we are only beginning to understand molecular evolutionary processes on the lineage to humans. To elucidate the evolution of proteins involved in human reproduction, we studied the sequence evolution of MAM domains of the sperm-ligand zonadhesin in respect to single amino acid sites, solvent accessibility, and posttranslational modification. GenBank-data were supplemented by new cDNA-sequences of a representative non-human primate panel. Solvent accessibility predictions identified a probably exposed fragment of 30 amino acids belonging to MAM domain 2 (i.e., MAM domain 3 in mouse). The fragment is characterized by significantly increased rate of positively selected amino acid sites and exhibits high variability in predicted posttranslational modification, and, thus, might represent a binding region in the mature protein. At the same time, there is a significant coincidence of positively selected amino acid sites and non-conserved posttranslational motifs. We conclude that the binding specificity of zonadhesin MAM domains, especially of the presumed epitope, is achieved by positive selection at the level of single amino acid sites and posttranslational modifications, respectively.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1055-7903
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
62-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Glycosylation, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Selection, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Sperm Maturation, pubmed-meshheading:15927490-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of a positively evolving putative binding region with increased variability in posttranslational motifs in zonadhesin MAM domain 2.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz, Germany. herlyn@uni-mainz.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't