Abstract:
BACKGROUND:The C2H2 zinc finger (C2H2-ZF) is the most numerous protein domain in many metazoans, but is not as frequent or diverse in other eukaryotes. The biochemical and evolutionary mechanisms that underlie the diversity of this DNA-binding domain exclusively in metazoans are, however, mostly unknown. RESULTS:Here, we show that the C2H2-ZF expansion in metazoans is facilitated by contribution of non-base-contacting residues to DNA binding energy, allowing base-contacting specificity residues to mutate without catastrophic loss of DNA binding. In contrast, C2H2-ZF DNA binding in fungi, plants, and other lineages is constrained by reliance on base-contacting residues for DNA-binding functionality. Reconstructions indicate that virtually every DNA triplet was recognized by at least one C2H2-ZF domain in the common progenitor of placental mammals, but that extant C2H2-ZF domains typically bind different sequences from these ancestral domains, with changes facilitated by non-base-contacting residues. CONCLUSIONS:Our results suggest that the evolution of C2H2-ZFs in metazoans was expedited by the interaction of non-base-contacting residues with the DNA backbone. We term this phenomenon "kaleidoscopic evolution," to reflect the diversity of both binding motifs and binding motif transitions and the facilitation of their diversification.
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Genome Bioljournal_title
Genome biologyauthors
Najafabadi HS,Garton M,Weirauch MT,Mnaimneh S,Yang A,Kim PM,Hughes TRdoi
10.1186/s13059-017-1287-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-06 00:00:00pages
167issue
1eissn
1474-7596issn
1474-760Xpii
10.1186/s13059-017-1287-yjournal_volume
18pub_type
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