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dc.contributor.authorSubramanian, Sankar
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Sudhir
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:47:23Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:47:23Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.issn00166731
dc.identifier.doi10.1534/genetics.104.028944
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/32095
dc.description.abstractNatural selection leaves its footprints on protein-coding sequences by modulating their silent and replacement evolutionary rates. In highly expressed genes in invertebrates, these footprints are seen in the higher codon usage bias and lower synonymous divergence. In mammals, the highly expressed genes have a shorter gene length in the genome and the breadth of expression is known to constrain the rate of protein evolution. Here we have examined how the rates of evolution of proteins encoded by the vertebrate genomes are modulated by the amount (intensity) of gene expression. To understand how natural selection operates on proteins that appear to have arisen in earlier and later phases of animal evolution, we have contrasted patterns of mouse proteins that have homologs in invertebrate and protist genomes (Precambrian genes) with those that do not have such detectable homologs (vertebrate-specific genes). We find that the intensity of gene expression relates inversely to the rate of protein sequence evolution on a genomic scale. The most highly expressed genes actually show the lowest total number of substitutions per polypeptide, consistent with cumulative effects of purifying selection on individual amino acid replacements. Precambrian genes exhibit a more pronounced difference in protein evolutionary rates (up to three times) between the genes with high and low expression levels as compared to the vertebrate-specific genes, which appears to be due to the narrower breadth of expression of the vertebratespecific genes. These results provide insights into the differential relationship and effect of the increasing complexity of animal body form on evolutionary rates of proteins.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherGenetics Society of America
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom373
dc.relation.ispartofpageto381
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGenetics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume168
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGenetics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode0604
dc.titleGene Expression Intensity Shapes Evolutionary Rates of the Proteins Encoded by the Vertebrate Genome
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2015-05-12T05:11:51Z
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gro.griffith.authorSankarasubramanian, Sankar


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