title: Diverse forms of guanylyl cyclases in medaka fish -- their genomic structure and phylogenetic relationships to those in vertebrates and invertebrates.
abstract: Fish species such as medaka fish, fugu, and zebrafish contain more guanylyl cyclases (GCs) than do mammals. These GCs can be divided into two types: soluble GCs and membrane GCs. The latter are further divided into four subfamilies: (i) natriuretic peptide receptors, (ii) STa/guanylin receptors, (iii) sensory-organ-specific membrane GCs, and (iv) orphan receptors. Phylogenetic analyses of medaka fish GCs, along with those of fugu and zebrafish, suggest that medaka fish is a much closer relative to fugu than to zebrafish. Analyses of nucleotide data available on a web site (http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/) of GCs from a range of organisms from bacteria to vertebrates suggest that gene duplication, and possibly chromosomal duplication, play important roles in the divergence of GCs. In particular, the membrane GC genes were generated by chromosomal duplication before the divergence of tetrapods and teleosts.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
authors.forename: Sayaka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamagami
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020440:Gene Duplication; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase / Q000235:genetics*; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D009990:Oryzias / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase