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Paleogenomics or the search for remnant duplicated copies of the yeast DUP240 gene family in intergenic areas.

Abstract：

:Duplication, resulting in gene redundancy, is well known to be a driving force of evolutionary change. Gene families are therefore useful targets for approaching genome evolution. To address the gene death process, we examined the fate of the 10-member-large S288C DUP240 family in 15 Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. Using an original three-step method of analysis reported here, both slightly and highly degenerate DUP240 copies, called pseudo-open reading frames (ORFs) and relics, respectively, were detected in strain S288C. It was concluded that two previously annotated ORFs correspond, in fact, to pseudo-ORFs and three additional relics were identified in intergenic areas. Comparative intraspecies analysis of these degenerate DUP240 loci revealed that the two pseudo-ORFs are present in a nondegenerate state in some other strains. This suggests that within a given gene family different loci are the target of the gene erasure process, which is therefore strain dependent. Besides, the variable positions observed indicate that the relic sequence may diverge faster than the flanking regions. All in all, this study shows that short conserved protein motifs provide a useful tool for detecting and accurately mapping degenerate gene remnants. The present results also highlight the strong contribution of comparative genomics for gene relic detection because the possibility of finding short conserved protein motifs in intergenic regions (IRs) largely depends on the choice of the most closely related paralog or ortholog. By mapping new genetic components in previously annotated IRs, our study constitutes a further refinement step in the crucial stage of genome annotation and provides a strategy for retracing ancient chromosomal reshaping events and, hence, for deciphering genome history.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Wirth B,Louis VL,Potier S,Souciet JL,Despons L

doi

10.1093/molbev/msi170

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1764-71

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msi170

journal_volume

pub_type

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Paleogenomics or the search for remnant duplicated copies of the yeast DUP240 gene family in intergenic areas.