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Published June 29, 2017 | Version v1
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Dataset: Uncovering missing pieces. Duplication and deletion history of arrestins in deuterostomes.

  • 1. Computational EvoDevo Group, Department of Computer Science, Universitaet Leipzig
  • 2. Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
  • 3. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Universitaet Leipzig

Description

This is the dataset accompanying the following publication: Uncovering missing pieces: Duplication and deletion history of arrestins in deuterostomes. See abstract below. 

Background
The cytosolic arrestin proteins mediate desensitization of activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) via competition with G proteins for the active phosphorylated receptors. Arrestins in active, including receptor-bound, conformation are also transducers of signaling. Therefore, this protein family is an attractive therapeutic target. The signaling outcome is believed to be a result of structural and sequence-dependent interactions of arrestins with GPCRs and other protein partners. Here we elucidated the detailed evolution of arrestins in deuterostomes.

Results
Identity and number of arrestin paralogs were determined searching deuterostome genomes and gene expression data. In contrast to standard gene prediction methods, our strategy first detects exons situated on different scaffolds and then solves the problem of assigning them to the correct gene. This increases both the completeness and the accuracy of the annotation in comparison to conventional database search strategies applied by the community. The employed strategy enabled us to map in detail the duplication- and deletion history of arrestin paralogs including tandem duplications, pseudogenizations and the formation of retrogenes. The two rounds of whole genome duplications in the vertebrate stem lineage gave rise to four arrestin paralogs. Surprisingly, visual arrestin ARR3 was lost in the mammalian clades Afrotheria and Xenarthra. Duplications in specific clades, on the other hand, must have given rise to new paralogs that show signatures of diversification in functional elements important for receptor binding and phosphate sensing.

Conclusion
The current study traces the functional evolution of deuterostome arrestins in unprecedented detail. Based on a precise re-annotation of the exon-intron structure at nucleotide resolution, we infer the gain and loss of paralogs and patterns of conservation, co-variation and selection.

Notes

This work was supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) of the European Union (EU) and the Free State of Saxony (grant numbers 100148833/22117017, 100227413 to HI) as well as NIH grants (RO1 DA030103, NS065868 to EVG and RO1 EY011500, R35 GM122491 to VVG).

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