title: Evolutionary relationships of lactate dehydrogenases (LDHs) from mammals, birds, an amphibian, fish, barley, and bacteria: LDH cDNA sequences from Xenopus, pig, and rat.
abstract: The nucleotide sequences of the cDNAs encoding LDH (EC 1.1.1.27) subunits LDH-A (muscle), LDH-B (liver), and LDH-C (oocyte) from Xenopus laevis, LDH-A (muscle) and LDH-B (heart) from pig, and LDH-B (heart) and LDH-C (testis) from rat were determined. These seven newly deduced amino acid sequences and 22 other published LDH sequences, and three unpublished fish LDH-A sequences kindly provided by G. N. Somero and D. A. Powers, were used to construct the most parsimonious phylogenetic tree of these 32 LDH subunits from mammals, birds, an amphibian, fish, barley, and bacteria. There have been at least six LDH gene duplications among the vertebrates. The Xenopus LDH-A, LDH-B, and LDH-C subunits are most closely related to each other and then are more closely related to vertebrate LDH-B than LDH-A. Three fish LDH-As, as well as a single LDH of lamprey, also seem to be more related to vertebrate LDH-B than to land vertebrate LDH-A. The mammalian LDH-C (testis) subunit appears to have diverged very early, prior to the divergence of vertebrate LDH-A and LDH-B subunits, as reported previously.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Qureshi
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Fitch
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000663:Amphibians / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics; D001467:Hordeum / Q000235:genetics; D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology; D051381:Rats / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013552:Swine / Q000235:genetics*; D014982:Xenopus laevis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D007527:Isoenzymes; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase