title: Ancient intron insertion sites and palindromic genomic duplication evolutionally shapes an elementally functioning membrane protein family.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In spite of the recent accumulation of genomic data, the evolutionary pathway in the individual genes of present-day living taxa is still elusive for most genes. Among ion channels, inward K+ rectifier (IRK) channels are the fundamental and well-defined protein group. We analyzed the genomic structures of this group and compared them among a phylogenetically wide range with our sequenced Halocynthia roretzi, a tunicate, IRK genomic genes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 131 IRK genomic genes were analyzed. The phylogenic trees of amino acid sequences revealed a clear diversification of deuterostomic IRKs from protostomic IRKs and suggested that the tunicate IRKs are possibly representatives of the descendants of ancestor forms of three major groups of IRKs in the vertebrate. However, the exon-intron structures of the tunicate IRK genomes showed considerable similarities to those of Caenorhabditis. In the vertebrate clade, the members in each major group increased at least four times those in the tunicate by various types of global gene duplication. The generation of some major groups was inferred to be due to anti-tandem (palindromic) duplication in early history. The intron insertion points greatly decreased during the evolution of the vertebrates, remaining as a unique conservation of an intron insertion site in the portion of protein-protein interaction within the coding regions of all vertebrate G-protein-activated IRK genes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From the genomic survey of a family of IRK genes, it was suggested that the ancient intron insertion sites and the unique palindromic genomic duplication evolutionally shaped this membrane protein family.
authors: Department of Medical Physiology, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Noshio 2-522-1, Kiyose, Tokyo, MZC204-8588, Japan. motokokt@my-pharm.ac.jp
authors: Motoko
authors: M
authors: Tanaka-Kunishima
authors: Yoshihiro
authors: Y
authors: Ishida
authors: Kunitaro
authors: K
authors: Takahashi
authors: Motoo
authors: M
authors: Honda
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Oonuma
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D020440:Gene Duplication; D016678:Genome; D007438:Introns; D010802:Phylogeny; D024661:Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014561:Urochordata / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D024661:Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying
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