title: Genome of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) encodes two distinct muscle regulatory factors with homology to myoD.
abstract: Previously we identified a trout myogenic factor related to MyoD. We now present a cDNA encoding a novel trout myogenic factor (TMyoD2) expressed in embryonic muscle. Nucleotide analysis and amino acid comparison showed that this cDNA encodes a MyoD-like protein of 275 amino acids that is distinct but related to TMyoD with 78% identity over the entire length. The protein sequence conservation between TMyoD2 and TMyoD was calculated to be 90% within the basic/helix-loop-helix domain that is involved in DNA binding and heterooligomerisation. At the nucleotide level, comparison of TMyoD with TMyoD2 reveals that the translated regions are flanked by highly divergent 3' and 5' ends. The substantial differences observed at translated and especially untranslated regions strongly suggest that TMyoD and TMyoD2 mRNA originate from different loci. The TMyoD and TMyoD2 mRNA are likely transcribed from two distinct genes which were duplicated during the tetraploïdization of the salmonid genome.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie des Poissons, INRA, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Rescan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gauvry
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D029941:Fish Proteins; D005815:Genetic Code; D016678:Genome; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017570:MyoD Protein / Q000235:genetics*; D017686:Oncorhynchus mykiss / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D029941:Fish Proteins; C101548:MYOD2 protein, Oncorhynchus mykiss; D017570:MyoD Protein