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Course code: ZOO560
Week 2Evolution of genes
& proteins Advanced molecular biology (ZOO560) by Rania M. H. Baleela is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This week lectures content
• Evolution of duplicate genes (paralogs)• Evolution of Pseudogenes• Mathematical models of substitution• Models of mutation:
1. IAM2. ISM3. SMM4. Wright-Fisher 5. Coalescence
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Genome Evolution
Genome changes due to1. Mutation2. Recombination3. Transposition4. Gene transfer5. Deletion and duplication
• major mechanism for the expansion in the size of genomes as organisms evolved from simple to more complex is duplication of whole genomes as well as duplication of specific sequences
Gene duplication is an important source of phenotypic change and
adaptive evolution
(Dennis et al., 2012)
Fates of duplicate genes
1.Subfunctionalization 2.Neofunctionalization
3.Nonfunctionalization (psuedogene) 4.Evolve in concert
Definitions
1. Subfunctionalization: a pair of duplicate genes are said to be subfuctionalized if each of the 2 copies of the gene performs only a subset of the functions of the ancestral single copy gene.
2. Neofunctionalization: a pair of duplicate genes in a population are said to be neofunctionalized if one of the 2 genes possesses a new selectively beneficial function that was absent in the population before the duplication (e.g. hepatocyte growth factor vs. plasminogen)
Duplicate genes fate models
Duplication
Nonfunctionalization(pseudogene)
NeofunctionalizationSubfunctionalization
Gene duplication: history• Time= 1936, • Scientist= Bridges • Finding= gene duplication of a chromosomal
band in a mutant of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster,
• Observed result= extreme reduction in eye sizeGene duplicates= paralogs
X-linked duplication
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The Bar gene duplication
Gene duplication May occur due to:
1. an error in homologous recombination, 2. a retrotransposition event, 3. duplication of an entire chromosome.
Which genes undergo duplication?Features that might allow or prohibit the fixation of a duplicate copy of a gene in the population:1. Functional biases in the types of genes that survive in
duplicate (e.g. in: yeast, humans, insects & bacteria).2. Belong to certain categories: such as genes encoding
transcription factors, kinases and particular enzymes & transporters have unexpectedly high numbers of duplicates
Duplications can be advantageous, deleterious or neutral
If an organism is exposed to a toxic environment, there may be an advantage in overproduction of detoxifying enzymes
Disadvantage will result of overproduction of a protein that upsets the regulatory balance
Most duplications are neutral=> their fate is determined by selection and drift
Transition from Australopithecus to Homo, why? and the beginning of neocortex expansion, how?
Dennis et al., 2012
The cortical development gene Slit-Robo Rho GTPase-activating protein 2 (SRGAP2) duplicated 3 times exclusively in humans: from (SRGAP2A) to (SRGAP2B), 2 larger duplications later copied SRGAP2B to (SRGAP2C) and to proximal (SRGAP2D). SRGAP2C is the most likely duplicate to encode a functional protein (one of the most fixed human-specific duplicate genes). Incomplete duplication created a novel gene function at birth 2–3 mya,
Pseudogenes
A pseudogene is a DNA sequence that is nearly identical to that of a functional gene, but
contains one or more mutations, making it non-functional.
First recognized and named pseudogenes during thelate 1970s
2 types of pseudogenes
1. Unprocessed (duplicated):– From genome duplication.– Subsequently lost its function .– Rapid degeneration observed in
prokaryotes. 2. Processed (retrotransposed):
–From reverse transcription (no intron).
Regulatory role has been observed for human pseudogenes.
Pseudogene descendants of human ribosomal protein gene (RPL21)
Pseudogenes may represent reservoirs of genetic information that participate in the evolution of new genes, not only relics of inactivated genes whose fate is genomic
extinction.
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21-hydroxylase (cytP21) gene
• One of the cytochrome P450 gene family.• cytP21 is located on chromosome 6 in
humans. • Has a paralogous pseudogene in the vicinity. • 100s of mutations in the 21-hydroxylase gene
have been described. • 75% of them are due to gene conversion.
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ξ-globin duplication• The equine ξ-globin locus consists of a gene
and a pseudogene. • The duplication of the ξ -globin genes
predates placental mammals radiation. • Because of repeated GC events, the gene and
the pseudogene are identical in their align-able part.
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Evolution by Gene Duplication Susumu Ohno, 1970
“Natural selection merely modified, while redundancy created”
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Mutation
• Mutation is any heritable change in the genetic material.
• Is the ultimate source of genetic variation.• Include:
1. Changes of DNA sequence (e.g. substitution)
2. Chromosomal rearrangements (e.g. inversion)
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Mutation
• Most wild type (wt) genes mutate at a very low rate
• Typical mutation rate= to new mutations/gene/generation.
• In a population of size N diploid organisms, there are 2N copies of each gene, each of which can mutate in any generation.
Mutation rate= probability of mutation.27
Types of point mutations• In DNA sequences:1. Transitions: Point mutations substituting a
purine (A or G) for a purine (A or G) or a pyrimidine (T or C) for a pyrimidine (T or C) .
2. Transversions: substituting a purine (A or G) by a pyrimidine (T or C).
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Transitions are more common than transversions.
Mathematical models of substitution
• Are essential to study the dynamics of nucleotides substitutions:
1) Jukes & Cantor one-parameter model (JC) (1969), 2) Kimura‘s two-parameters model (K2P) (1980),3) Felsenstein model (F81) (1981),4) Hasegawa, Kishino & Yano model (HKY85) (1985),5) A general reversible model (REV) (Rodríguez et al.,
1990).
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Jukes & Cantor model (JC)
assumes no bias in the direction of change so
that substitutions occur randomly
among the four types of nucleotides with
equal probability.
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Kimura‘s two-parameters model (K2P)
incorporate the observation that the transition
rate per site (α) may differ from that of
transversion (β).
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Felsenstein model (F81)
allows the frequencies of the 4
nucleotides to be different
But
assumes that they are approximately the same
over all the sequences.
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Hasegawa, Kishino & Yano model (HKY85)
merges K2P & F81 models By:
1. allowing transitions & transversions to occur at different rates,
2. allowing base frequencies to vary as well
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The general reversible model (REV)
adopts a more general approach, with a probability matrix of six parameters making it
possible to generate any of the previous models.
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1. The infinite-alleles model (IAM)
assumes that every new mutation that arises in a population creates a new allele that had not existed previously (Kimura & Crow, 1964).
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2. The infinite-sites model (ISM)
• assumes that a new mutation alters sites (i.e. nucleotides) in sequences or alleles instead of creating an entire new allele and that it makes all polymorphic sites segregating for just two nucleotides if the mutation rate is sufficiently low (Kimura, 1969).
3. The stepwise-mutation model (SMM)
• initially developed for allozyme variation and then adopted for microsatellites mutations;
• assumes that mutation only occurs to adjacent states (Ohta and Kimura, 1973);
• in the case of microsatellites, different alleles have different number of repeats that mutation occurs only by adding or deleting one repeat.
• Unlike IAM, in the SMM mutation may produce alleles that are already present in the population (Hedrick, 2005).
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4. The Wright-Fisher model• is a simple representation of a population
that Sewall Wright (1931) and Ronald Fisher (1930) used in developing the principles of population genetics (Hedrick, 2005).
• Assumes non-overlapping generations of individuals, random mating and a constant population size of N diploid individuals resulting in a Poisson distribution (Hey and Machado, 2003).
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Non-overlapping generations mathematical model (adopted from Hartl and Clark, 1997, with modifications)
In this model, all organisms from one generation die before the members of the next generation mature. It applies literally only to organisms with a very simple life history such as short-lived insects, but this model can be used in population genetics as a first
approximation to populations with more complex life histories.
5. The coalescent approach
• Credited to Kingman (1982),• in brief this theory depends on the Wright-
Fisher model and works by tracing alleles back to their ancestors and calculating the times to the common ancestry allele.
• The point at which the ancestor allele is detected is called coalescence (Hedrick, 2005).