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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
Reverse phase chromatography of the globin chains of adult, newborn, and fetal erythrocytes from three species of New World monkeys (Cebus apella, Aotus azarae, and Callithrix jacchus) representing three of the seven platyrrhine clades showed that gamma-globin expression was fetal in these animals. The globins were identified by a combination of chemical sequencing and mass spectrometric analysis. Since gamma-globin expression is fetal in the other major simian branch, the catarrhines, but embryonic in prosimian primates and nonprimate placental mammals, the evolution of fetal recruitment can now be assigned to the period between the simian-prosimian divergence (55 million years ago) and the platyrrhine-catarrhine divergence (35 million years ago). The gamma-globin gene underwent tandem duplication during the same evolutionary epoch, in accord with a model that suggests that the downstream duplicated gamma-gene (gamma2) was free to acquire the mutations necessary for fetal recruitment. Mass spectrometric analysis of tryptic digests of the gamma-globins verified the amino acid sequences deduced from genomic sequencing. Detailed analysis of high performance liquid chromatography and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry data showed that gamma2-globin in Cebus was expressed to a far greater extent than gamma1-globin, supporting inferences drawn from a study of the promoter sequences. A "pre-gamma"-globin was observed in C. apella and shown to be primarily the glutathionyl adduct. The other species, A. azarae and C. jacchus, also express only one gamma-globin polypeptide. This work provides biochemical evidence of an evolutionary trend in the platyrrhines to alter the duplicated gamma-globin gene locus so that only one gamma-globin polypeptide is expressed.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
14684-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Abortion, Veterinary, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Aotus trivirgatus, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Callithrix, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Cebus, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Cercopithecidae, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Cyanogen Bromide, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Fetus, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Globins, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser..., pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Strepsirhini, pubmed-meshheading:8663037-Trypsin
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Fetal globin expression in New World monkeys.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Wayne State Medical School, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't