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Molecular evolution of cyclin proteins in animals and fungi
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The passage through the cell cycle is controlled by complexes of cyclins, the regulatory units, with cyclin-dependent kinases, the catalytic units. It is also known that cyclins form several families, which differ considerably in primary structure from one eukaryotic organism to another. Despite these lines of evidence, the relationship between the evolution of cyclins and their function is an open issue. Here we present the results of our study on the molecular evolution of A-, B-, D-, E-type cyclin proteins in animals and fungi.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We constructed phylogenetic trees for these proteins, their ancestral sequences and analyzed patterns of amino acid replacements. The analysis of infrequently fixed atypical amino acid replacements in cyclins evidenced that accelerated evolution proceeded predominantly during paralog duplication or after it in animals and fungi and that it was related to aromorphic changes in animals. It was shown also that evolutionary flexibility of cyclin function may be provided by consequential reorganization of regions on protein surface remote from CDK binding sites in animal and fungal cyclins and by functional differentiation of paralogous cyclins formed in animal evolution.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The results suggested that changes in the number and/or nature of cyclin-binding proteins may underlie the evolutionary role of the alterations in the molecular structure of cyclins and their involvement in diverse molecular-genetic events.</p
The Impact of Metallurgical-Mining Enterprises on the Transformation of the Biosphere and Noobiosphere
On the VUV and UV 4f(7)(S-8)5d -> 4f(8) interconfigurational transitions of Tb3+ ions in LiLuF4 single crystal hosts
On the 4f25d → 4f3 interconfigurational transitions of Nd3+ ions in K2YF5 and LiYF4 crystal hosts
On the VUV and UV 4f7(8S)5d > 4f8 interconfigurational transitions of Tb3+ ions in LiLuF4 single crystal hosts
Invertase overproduction may provide for inulin fermentation by selection strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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