title: Flagellated algae protein evolution suggests the prevalence of lineage-specific rules governing evolutionary rates of eukaryotic proteins.
abstract: Understanding the general rules governing the rate of protein evolution is fundamental to evolutionary biology. However, attempts to address this issue in yeasts and mammals have revealed considerable differences in the relative importance of determinants for protein evolutionary rates. This phenomenon was previously explained by the fact that yeasts and mammals are different in many cellular and genomic properties. Flagellated algae species have several cellular and genomic characteristics that are intermediate between yeasts and mammals. Using partial correlation analyses on the evolution of 6,921 orthologous proteins from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Volvox carteri, we examined factors influencing evolutionary rates of proteins in flagellated algae. Previous studies have shown that mRNA abundance and gene compactness are strong determinants for protein evolutionary rates in yeasts and mammals, respectively. We show that both factors also influence algae protein evolution with mRNA abundance having a larger impact than gene compactness on the rates of algae protein evolution. More importantly, among all the factors examined, coding sequence (CDS) length has the strongest (positive) correlation with protein evolutionary rates. This correlation between CDS length and the rates of protein evolution is not due to alignment-related issues or domain density. These results suggest no simple and universal rules governing protein evolutionary rates across different eukaryotic lineages. Instead, gene properties influence the rate of protein evolution in a lineage-specific manner.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ting-Yan
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Ben-Yang
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D020418:Algal Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000235:genetics; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics; D059645:Mutation Rate; D010802:Phylogeny; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D044446:Volvox / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D020418:Algal Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger
keywords: expression level; functional density; gene compactness; mRNA abundance; protein length
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