title: A comparison of TSPY genes from Y-chromosomal DNA of the great apes and humans: sequence, evolution, and phylogeny.
abstract: The genes for testis-specific protein Y (TSPY) were sequenced from chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and baboon (Papio hamadryas). The sequences were compared with each other and with the published human sequence. Substitutions were detected at 144 of the 755 nucleotide positions compared. In overviewing five sequences, one deletion in human, four successive nucleotide insertions in orangutan, and seven deletions/insertions in baboon sequence were noted. The present sequences differed from that of human by 1.9% (chimpanzee), 4.0% (gorilla), 8.2% (orangutan), and 16.8% (baboon), respectively. The phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbor-joining method suggests that human and chimpanzee are more closely related to each other than either of them is to gorilla, and this result is also supported by maximum likelihood and strict consensus maximum parsimony trees. The number of nucleotide substitutions per site between human and chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan for TSPY intron were 0.024, 0.048, and 0.094, respectively. The rates of nucleotide substitutions per site per year were higher in the TSPY intron than in the TSPY exon, and higher in the TSPY intron than in the ZFY (Zinc Finger Y) intron in human and apes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Kyoto University, Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Takenaka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006071:Gorilla gorilla / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D010215:Papio / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011148:Pongo pygmaeus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D051876:Sex-Determining Region Y Protein; D014157:Transcription Factors; D014998:Y Chromosome
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051876:Sex-Determining Region Y Protein; C497749:TSPY1 protein, human; D014157:Transcription Factors