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ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2007

Loss of introns along the evolutionary diversification pathway of snake venom disintegrins evidenced by sequence analysis of genomic DNA from Macrovipera lebetina transmediterranea and Echis ocellatus.

Amine Bazaa, Paula Juárez, Néziha Marrakchi, Zakaria Bel Lasfer, Mohamed El Ayeb, Robert A Harrison, Juan J Calvete, Libia Sanz

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Article in Journal of molecular evolution, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Amine BazaaLaboratoire des Venins et Toxines, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, B.P. 74, 1002, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia.
Paula Juárez
Néziha Marrakchi
Zakaria Bel Lasfer
Mohamed El Ayeb
Robert A Harrison
Juan J Calvete
Libia Sanz
Institut Pasteur de Tunis · TNInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia · ESLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GB

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Abstract

Analysis of cDNAs from Macrovipera lebetina transmediterranea (Mlt) and Echis ocellatus (Eo) venom gland libraries encoding disintegrins argued strongly for a common ancestry of the messengers of short disintegrins and those for precursors of dimeric disintegrin chains. We now report the sequence analysis of disintegrin-coding genes from these two vipers. Genomic DNAs for dimeric disintegrin subunits Ml_G1 and Ml_G2 (Mlt) and Eo_D3 (Eo) contain single 1-kb introns exhibiting the 5'-GTAAG (donor)/3'-AG (acceptor) consensus intron splicing signature. On the other hand, the short RTS-disintegrins Ml_G3 (Mlt) and Eo_RTS (Eo) and the short RGD-disintegrin ocellatusin (Eo) are transcribed from intronless genomic DNA sequences, indicating that the evolutionary pathway leading to the emergence of short disintegrins involved the removal of all intronic sequences. The insertion position of the intron within Ml_G1, Ml_G2, and Eo_D3 is conserved in the genes for vertebrate ADAM (A disintegrin and metalloproteinase) protein disintegrin-like domains and within the gene for the medium-size snake disintegrins halystatins 2 and 3. However, a comparative analysis of currently available disintegrin(-like) genes outlines the view that a minimization of both the gene organization and the protein structure underlies the evolution of the snake venom disintegrin family.

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Genetic VariationIntronsSequence DeletionAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceDisintegrinsDNADNA, ComplementaryDNA PrimersMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenySequence AlignmentSequence Homology, Amino AcidViperidaeViper VenomsDisintegrinsDNADNA, ComplementaryDNA PrimersViper Venoms

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