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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

The ancestor of modern Holozoa acquired the CCA-adding enzyme from Alphaproteobacteria by horizontal gene transfer.

Heike Betat, Tobias Mede, Sandy Tretbar, Lydia Steiner, Peter F Stadler, Mario Mörl, Sonja J Prohaska

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Divergent Evolution of Eukaryotic CC- and A-Adding Enzymes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Heike BetatInstitute for Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Brüderstraße 34, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Tobias MedeComputational EvoDevo Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany.
Sandy TretbarInstitute for Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Brüderstraße 34, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Lydia SteinerComputational EvoDevo Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany.
Peter F StadlerBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Fraunhofer Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie, Perlickstraße 1, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg, Denmark Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
Mario MörlInstitute for Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Brüderstraße 34, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Sonja J ProhaskaComputational EvoDevo Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany sonja@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) require the absolutely conserved sequence motif CCA at their 3'-ends, representing the site of aminoacylation. In the majority of organisms, this trinucleotide sequence is not encoded in the genome and thus has to be added post-transcriptionally by the CCA-adding enzyme, a specialized nucleotidyltransferase. In eukaryotic genomes this ubiquitous and highly conserved enzyme family is usually represented by a single gene copy. Analysis of published sequence data allows us to pin down the unusual evolution of eukaryotic CCA-adding enzymes. We show that the CCA-adding enzymes of animals originated from a horizontal gene transfer event in the stem lineage of Holozoa, i.e. Metazoa (animals) and their unicellular relatives, the Choanozoa. The tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, acquired from an α-proteobacterium, replaced the ancestral enzyme in Metazoa. However, in Choanoflagellata, the group of Choanozoa that is closest to Metazoa, both the ancestral and the horizontally transferred CCA-adding enzymes have survived. Furthermore, our data refute a mitochondrial origin of the animal tRNA nucleotidyltransferases.

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Evolution, MolecularGene Transfer, HorizontalAlphaproteobacteriaAnimalsChoanoflagellataEukaryotaPhylogenyRNA NucleotidyltransferasesRNA NucleotidyltransferasestRNA nucleotidyltransferase

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PMCPMC4538823
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