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ArticleThe Journal of membrane biology2011

Evolution of the oligopeptide transporter family.

Kenny M Gomolplitinant, Milton H Saier

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Article in The Journal of membrane biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenny M GomolplitinantDivision of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
Milton H Saier
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB)R01GM077402 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SAIER, MILTON H. · 2006 to 2021
$4.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM077402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The oligopeptide transporter (OPT) family of peptide and iron-siderophore transporters includes members from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes but with restricted distribution in the latter domain. Eukaryotic members were found only in fungi and plants with a single slime mold homologue clustering with the fungal proteins. All functionally characterized eukaryotic peptide transporters segregate from the known iron-siderophore transporters on a phylogenetic tree. Prokaryotic members are widespread, deriving from many different phyla. Although they belong only to the iron-siderophore subdivision, genome context analyses suggest that many of them are peptide transporters. OPT family proteins have 16 or occasionally 17 transmembrane-spanning α-helical segments (TMSs). We provide statistical evidence that the 16-TMS topology arose via three sequential duplication events followed by a gene-fusion event for proteins with a seventeenth TMS. The proposed pathway is as follows: 2 TMSs → 4 TMSs → 8 TMSs → 16 TMSs → 17 TMSs. The seventeenth C-terminal TMS, which probably arose just once, is found in just one phylogenetic group of these homologues. Analyses for orthology revealed that a few phylogenetic clusters consist exclusively of orthologues but most have undergone intermixing, suggestive of horizontal transfer. It appears that in this family horizontal gene transfer was frequent among prokaryotes, rare among eukaryotes and largely absent between prokaryotes and eukaryotes as well as between plants and fungi. These observations provide guides for future structural and functional analyses of OPT family members.

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Evolution, MolecularAmino Acid SequenceArchaeaArchaeal ProteinsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsComputational BiologyConserved SequenceDictyosteliidaFungal ProteinsFungiMembrane Transport ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPlant ProteinsPlantsArchaeal ProteinsBacterial ProteinsFungal ProteinsMembrane Transport Proteinspeptide permeasePlant ProteinsProtozoan Proteins

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PMID21347612
PMCPMC3061005
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