Abstract:
:Keratins I and II form the largest subgroups of mammalian intermediate filament (IF) proteins and account as obligatory heteropolymers for the keratin filaments of epithelia. All human type I genes except for the K18 gene are clustered on chromosome 17q21, while all type II genes form a cluster on chromosome 12q13, that ends with the type I gene K18. Highly related keratin gene clusters are found in rat and mouse. Since fish seem to lack a keratin II cluster we screened the recently established draft genomes of a bird (chicken) and an amphibian (Xenopus). The results show that keratin I and II gene clusters are a feature of all terrestrial vertebrates. Because hair with its multiple hair keratins and inner root sheath keratins is a mammalian acquisition, the keratin gene clusters of chicken and Xenopus tropicalis have only about half the number of genes found in mammals. Within the type I clusters all genes have the same orientation. In type II clusters there is a rare gene of opposite orientation. Finally we show that the genes for keratins 8 and 18, which are the first expression pair in embryology, are not only adjacent in mammals, but also in Xenopus and three different fish. Thus neighboring K8 and K18 genes seem a feature shared by all vertebrates. In contrast to the two well defined keratin gene clusters of terrestrial vertebrates, three teleost fish show an excess of type I over type II genes, the lack of a keratin type II gene cluster and a striking dispersal of type I genes, that are probably the result of the teleost-specific whole genome duplication followed by a massive gene loss. This raises the question whether keratin gene clusters extend beyond the ancestral bony vertebrate to cartilage fish and lamprey. We also analyzed the complement of non-keratin IF genes of the chicken. Surprisingly, an additional nuclear lamin gene, previously overlooked by cDNA cloning, is documented on chromosome 10. The two splice variants closely resemble the lamin LIII a + b of amphibia and fish. This lamin gene is lost on the mammalian lineage.
journal_name
Eur J Cell Bioljournal_title
European journal of cell biologyauthors
Zimek A,Weber Kdoi
10.1016/j.ejcb.2005.01.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-06-01 00:00:00pages
623-35issue
6eissn
0171-9335issn
1618-1298pii
S0171-9335(05)00025-7journal_volume
84pub_type
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