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Phylogenetic Analyses of the Loops in Elongation
Factors EF1A: Stronger Support for the Grouping of Animal and Fungi |
Oxana V. Galzitskaya †, Eugeniya I. Deryusheva †† and Igor N. Serdyuk †, ‡ * |
†Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russian
Federation |
‡Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, 141980, Russian Federation |
††Tula State University, 300600, Tula, Russian Federation |
Oxana V. Galzitskaya: ogalzit@vega.protres.ru, Eugeniya I. Deryusheva: janed1986@yandex.ru |
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Dr. I. N. Serdyuk, Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290,
Phone : 0-007-496-7732927,
Fax : 0-007-495-632-78-71,
Email : serdyuk@vega.protres.ru |
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| Received December 04, 2008; Accepted December 23, 2008; Published December 26, 2008 |
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Citation:
Oxana VG, Eugeniya ID, Igor NS (2008) Phylogenetic Analyses of the Loops in Elongation Factors EF1A: Stronger
Support for the Grouping of Animal and Fungi. J Comput Sci Syst Biol 1: 073-080. doi:10.4172/jcsb.1000006 |
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Copyright: © 2008 Oxana VG, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
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Discerning how different major groups of organisms are related to each other and tracing their evolution from
the common ancestor remains controversial and unsolved. In recent years, much new information based on a
large number of gene and protein sequences has become available. So far phylogenetic analysis can be carried
out based on either nucleic acid or protein sequences. However it was become evident that both approaches
have a many serious limitations and pitfalls. Our novel findings follows from analysis of loops in elongation
factors EF1A using novel informative characteristic which was called “loops” method. The method is based on
the ability of amino acid sequences form loops in protein structure. The specificity of a criterion for grouping
organisms is distinctly evident from the analysis of the loops using EF1A for three kingdoms of life. Each kingdom
displayed variations in the number of loops and their location within the three EF1À domains and can be
consider as imprint of molecular evolution. Stronger support that animals and fungi are sibling kingdoms was
found. |
Keywords |
| elongation factors; Eubacteria; Archaea; Eukaryotes; Protists; indels and loops in proteins |
Introduction |
| The phylogenetic relationship among the kingdoms
Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi remains uncertain despite the
extensive attempts. The current analysis shows that the
proposed phylogenetic relationships differ from one another,
depending on the type of molecules and the method that the
authors use. There are three controversial hypotheses. One
states that Animalia is more closely related to Plantae (Gouy
and Li, 1989; Philip, Creevey, and McInerney, 2005; Yang,
Doolittle, and Bourne, 2005). The second supports Plantae
and Fungi grouping (Loytynoja and Milinkovitch ,2001), and
the third – Animalia and Fungi (Wainright et al.,1993; Baldauf and Palmer, 1993; Nikoh et al., 1994). Moreover, it was
proposed that the eukaryotic supergroup including Animalia
and Fungi should be expanded to include a collection of primitive
unicellular eukaryotes (Protists) since there is an indel
of ~12 amino acids in elongation factors EF1A of this supergroup
(Cherkasov et al., 2006). United group of organisms
was designated as Opisthokonta (Steenkamp, Wright,
and Baldauf, 2006). These data shows that despite the potential
power of sequence-based phylogenies, of both proteins
and rRNAs, we need to focus on suitable evidence
from independent sources to elucidate evolutionary relationships among eukaryotes. |
Here we present that the ability of amino acid sequences
to form internal flexible regions that appear as loops in their
3D structure can be served as a new phylogenetic criterion.
To demonstrate the specificity of new criterion, we
selected elongation factors EF1A. There are several reasons
for that. First, they are available in all cells and involved
in protein biosynthesis as catalysts of codon-dependent
binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome (Abel and
Jurnak, 1996). Second, eukaryotic factors, in addition to their
general canonical function (binding with tRNA), form complexes
with various ligands ranging from actin to virial RNA
(Budkevich et al., 2002; Serdyuk, 2006). Third, elongation
factors were the first proteins used for protein phylogenetic
analyses (Iwabe et al., 1989; Lechner and Böck, 1987).
Lastly the 3D structure of three prokaryotic, one archaeal,
and one eukaryotic are known from x-ray crystallography
data. |
Analysis of loops in elongation factors assists in resolving
molecular phylogeny of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and
Fungi. According to this analysis close evolutionary relatedness
exists between the kingdoms Animalia and Fungi and
Protists group can be consider as a precursor of it. |
Materials and Methods |
Structure of Elongation Factors EF1A |
| An elongation factor consists of three domains with two
interconnecting peptides (Kjeldgard and Nyborg, 1992;
Kjeldgard et al., 1993). Domain I (nucleotide-binding domain)
is linked with domain II by a rather long peptide (e.g.,
of about 16 Å in E. coli). The length of this peptide depends
on the isolation source, and it is enriched in proline, which
ensures that the peptide has certain rigidity. Interactions
between domain III and domain I are non-covalent. The
three domains form a small inner cavity, which is liganddependent
in size. With GDP replaced by GTP, the domains
undergo a rearrangement: two parts of the molecule, one
with domain I and the other with the rest, move towards
each other until they meet, and a site enriched in polar amino
acids emerges onto the surface. It is to this site that
aminoacyl-tRNA binds (Kjeldgard and Nyborg, 1992;Kjeldgard et al., 1993). |
Amino Acid Sequences of Elongation Factors EF1A
The amino acid sequences of all elongation factors considered
here were extracted from the SWISS-PROT protein
sequence database (http://us.expasy.org/sprot/). We list below the complete names of the organisms whose elongation
factors were analyzed and the SWISS-PROT accession
numbers of the sequences. |
Kingdom of Eubacterium is represented by: Escherichiacoli (P0A6N1), Thermus aquaticus (Q01698) , Thermus thermophilus (P60338), Staphylococcus aureus
(Q5HIC7), Chlorella vulgaris (P56292), Euglena gracilis
(P02991), Astasia longa (P14634), Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. Liui (Q6B8Y0), Spirulina platensis
(P13552), Anabaena sp. (strain PCC 7120) (Q8YP63). |
Kingdom of Archaebacteria by: Sulfolobus tokodaii
(Q976B1), Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (P17156), Sulfolobus solfataricus (P35021), Thermoplasma volcanium (Q979T1), Thermoplasma acidophilum
(P19486), Picrophilus torridus (Q6L202), Halobacterium salinarium (Q9HM89), Halobacterium marismortui
(P16018). |
Kingdom of Eukaria by: Oryctolagus cuniculus
(P68105), Drosophila melanogaster (P05303), Xenopus tropicalis (Q5I0S9); Artemia salina (P02993), Onchocerca volvulus (P27592), Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(P02994), Arabidopsis thaliana (P13905), Daucus carota
(P29251), Hordeum vulgare (P34824), Dictyostelium discoideum (P18624), Arxula adeninivorans (P41745), Ajellomyces capsulatus (P40911), Candida albicans
(P16017) Absidia glauca (P28295). |
Program FoldUnfold |
| To predict loops we use a special program, FoldUnfold
(Galzitskaya, Garbuzynskiy, and Lobanov, 2006a, 2006b).
We will call predicted unstructured regions ‘loops,’ using
the terminology accepted for the description of flexible regions
in 3D protein structure. Such loops reflect internal
flexibility in proteins. It has been demonstrated that using
this program it is possible to predict with good accuracy
(80%) the status of residues to be protected or not from
hydrogen exchange directly from amino acid sequences
(Dovidchenko and Galzitskaya, 2008). As has been shown,
the program gives the best results for the prediction of loop
regions in G protein family in comparison with other programs
for searching internal flexibility (Deryusheva,
Galzitskaya, and Serdyuk, 2008). Moreover, the reliability
of the predictions of loops in elongation factors by Program
FoldUnfold was proved by a direct comparison with X-ray
experimental data for three prokaryotic EFs (Serdyuk and
Galzitskaya , 2007). The program predicts a loop, named
the effector loop, in region 30–60 of EF domain I. The socalled
thermophilic loops, 10-residues long (182-193), were found within domain I of thermophilic elongation factors (T.
aquaticus, T. thermophilus); these are responsible for distinguishing
thermophilic bacteria from others. The interconnecting
peptide between domains I and II was detected using
a five-residue window. It was not always detected with the
standard 11-residue window. In addition, the linker predicted
for thermophilic elongation factors does not always coincide
with the experimentally determined region. The linker
connecting domains II and III is detected in elongation factors
at a standard window size of 11 residues. Analysis of
the role of window width in prediction of loops is described
in our recent publication (Deryusheva, Galzitskaya, and
Serdyuk, 2008). |
The FoldUnfold program is accessible at http://
skuld.protres.ru/~mlobanov/ogu/ogu.cgi. |
Results |
Predictions of Loop Regions in EF1A for Three Kingdoms
of Life: Positions and Motives |
| As demonstrated in Eukaryotes and Archaebacteria, apart
from inter-domain interconnecting peptides and the effector
loop, there are six extra loops within elongation factors.
Three loops (A, B, C) occur in the first domain, one (D) in
the second, and two (E and F) in the third domain of a
factor. |
Some representatives of elongation factors from three
kingdoms of Life are given in Fig.1. The lettering stands for
the following. Loops A, B and C are found within the first
domain in the regions of amino acids (a.a.) 121-134, 155- 166, and 182-195. The position of Loop D is close to a.a
290-310 within the second domain, and that of Loop E is
about a.a. 364-380 of the third domain. Loop F, if identified
at all, is always found at the C-terminus of the polypeptide
chain. Since the full chain length ranges significantly from
factor to factor (e.g., 394 residues for E. coli and 463 residues
for C. elegans), the loop positions vary accordingly,
as tabulated for each Subkingdom. |
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Figure 1: Scheme of the predicted elongation factor loops for three Superkingdoms of life.v Double symbol ± means
that Loops B and D have not been predicted concurrently in Antropoda Phylum.
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As seen from Fig 1, the number of extra loops (not counting
the effector loop) within prokaryotic factors is minimal,
ranging from zero for Proteobacteria, to one for thermophilic
bacteria (Loop C) and two for Cyanobacteria (Loops
C and E). Loop C of Cyanobacteria is always found in the
position of a thermophilic loop. |
For Eukaria, the number of predicted extra loops ranges
from two (Protists) to four (Animalia and Fungi). All eukaryotic
factors, except Protists, have a fully disordered
region of about 20 amino acids (Loop F) at their C-termini
(Table 1). The loop F length is independent of the factor
origin (Serdyuk and Galzitskaya 2007). Interestingly, a complex
of yeast EF1A with a fragment of nucleotide-exchangeable
subunit eEE1B has a partially unfolded factor terminus
(residues 442-452) as well (Andersen et al. 2000). |
Extra loops within each domain, a large disordered region
at the C-terminus, and high inter-domain mobility (Kjeldgard
and Nyborg 1992; Kjeldgard et al., 1993) can be an explanation
of the fact that none of the isolated eukaryotic factors
has been crystallized so far. Its successful crystallization is possible only when in a complex with a partner, as it
has been demonstrated for the yeast factor (Andersen et
al., 2000). Positions of all found loops and two linkers in
elongation factors from S. serevisiae in complex with fragment
EF-1B (fragment is not shown) are demonstrated in
Fig.2. |
Table 1: Loop sequence motifs in the three Superkingdom of Life.
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Figure 2: 3D structure of S. cerevisiae eEF1A in complex with an eEF1B fragment (not shown); PDB code, 1f60.
Roman numerals denote domains. Latin letters indicate predicted loops colored green, and red.
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Factors from kingdom Archaebacteria look like particularized
protein structures where distribution of loops (usually
three in number) over domains extremely depend on
the sources of microorganisms. For example, an exclusive
feature of sulfur bacteria is the presence of Loop A (Fig.1).
Also, the predicted loops in Archaebacteria contain two more
loops (D and E), which, in the case of S. solfotaricus, is in
good agreement with X-ray data (Vitagliano et al. 2001).
Hyperthermophiles accommodate Loop B, which is absent
in other Archaebacteria. Like methanogens, halophiles lack
Loops A, B, and C within the first domain, but Loop E always
occurs within their third domain. A common feature
of Archaebacteria and Eubacteria is the absence of long
Loop F. Thus, our analysis of protein factors properties provides
an additional evidence that the Archaebacteria are an
independent kingdom whose properties are very different from those of the Eubacteria (Woese, Kandler, and Wheelis,
1990). |
The amino acid compositions of some loops are quite conserved
and amazingly alike within factors of different origins.
For example, for all eukaryotic factors, the structural
motif of Loop A is virtually invariable
(GEFEAGISKNGQTR), whereas the motif of this loop
within factors of Archaebacteria is quite different
(KGEYEAGMSAEG for sulfur bacteria). The main motif
of Loop E of eukaryotes (DRR(T)SGK) is conserved too.
Interestingly, the structural motif of Loop B found within
hyperthermophiles of Archaebacteria (MDATEPPFSEK)
resembles that of Loop B accommodated by Animalia
(MDSTEPPYS), and the main motif of Loop D within sulfur
bacteria and hyperthermophiles (PGDNIGF) is close to
that of Loop D, which occurs within some eukaryotes
(PGDNVGF). |
Variability of extra loops of specific sequences within
eukaryotic elongation factors is very likely to their multifunctional
activities. It is well known that in addition to their
main function, i.e., interaction with aminoacyl tRNA, eukaryotic factors associate with various ligands, from
calmodulin to virial RNA (Budkevich et al., 2002). The diverse
nature of these ligands obviously requires different
functional sites, whose roles may be played by the loops
reported in the current study. The discovered correlation
between the length of a polypeptide chain and proportion of
lysine incorporation into elongation factors illustrates a considerable
role played by this amino acid in RNA-protein interactions
(Lechner and Böck, 1987). Thus, the C-terminal
part of elongation factors (Loop F) is responsible for actin
interactions (Gross and Kinzy, 2005). |
Evolutionary Relationships Among the Main Groups
of Modern Organisms (Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi) |
As seen from Table 2, Protists contain Loop A and Loop
E, which is a typical feature of Animalia and Fungi. Hence,
Opisthokonta can be rated as an important taxon that includes
both multicellular organisms and their extant unicellular
relatives. However, the situation is not so straightforward:
the long Loop F which is typical of all eukaryotic
elongation factors is absent in Protists. This allows considering
the Protists group as a precursor of Animalia and Fungi
and agrees with some contemporary theories on the early opisthokont evolution. Most of these theories suggest that
colonial naked choanoflagellat-like protists gave rise to the
first animals, while chitinous thecate choanoflagellat-like
protists gave rise to the first fungi (Cavalier-Smith, 1987;
Buck, 1990). The Loop F might be acquired in the course of
evolution. |
For our analysis, is important not only the existence of
loops, but also specificity of a sequence within the loop. As
seen from Table 2, the sequence motif of Loop A in all Protists,
Animalia and Fungi is highly conserved
(GEFEAGISKN(D)GQTRE), although the chain length
changes significantly from factor to factor (e.g., 385 residues
for Ministeria vibransi and 463 residues for Xenopus
tropicalsis). At the same time, the sequence motif of
Loop E is in an exclusive clade with either primitive unicellular
animals (Amoebidium, Corallochytrium
Chytriomyces and Monosiga ovata) or primitive unicellular
fungi (Nuclearia simplex). The position of Ministeria
is much closer to primitive animals. Since the sequence motif
of Loop E in Amoebidium, Corallochytrium Chytriomyces
and Monosiga ovata factors is very close to the motif of
multicellular Animalia such as Bos taurus or Xenopus
tropicals, we consider these Protists as precursors of the Animalia lineage. The sequence motif of Loop E in Nuclear
simplex is close to that of some multicellular Fungi such as
Puccinia gramnis or Podospora anserina. This suggests
that Nuclear simplex may be a precursor of the Fungi lineage.
However this suggestion is not unambiguous: other
fungi such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Rhizomucor
racemosus may have ancestors from choanoflagellates as
well, thereby likeness between Fungi and Animalia is demonstrated
once again. Surpisingly, but indels provide no significant
information on the matter. |
Table 2: Sequence motifs of Loops A and E and of indels in Protists, Animalia, and Fungi.
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Discussion |
| The characteristic features of EF1A were detected for
each of the three kingdoms of life with the example of several
dozens of typical representatives. These features include
variations in the number of loops and their locations
within the EF domains. It is of fundamental importance that,
not only the presence of a particular loop is taken into account
in our analysis, but also the specificity of its amino
acid sequence. Note also that the total number of amino
acid residues in EF1A reflects the division of the Living
World into three kingdoms. The lengths of EF1A fall into
the range of 393–406 residues in Eubacteria, 422–444 residues
in Archaea, and 458–464 residues in Eukarya. |
The specificity of the new criterion for grouping organisms
is distinctly evident from the data shown in Fig. 1 and
Table 1. First, disordered region F of about 20 residues at
the C-end is characteristic of only eukaryotic EF1A and is
absent in both the kingdoms Eubacteria, Archaea, and Protists
also. Second, the exclusive characteristic feature of
the Crenarchaeota (sulfur bacteria) is the presence of loop
A, which is undetectable in the Euryarchaeota. Third, the
exclusive characteristic of thermophilic bacteria is the thermophilic
insert (loop C) of about 10 residues, which distinguishes
them from all other bacteria. |
The obtained data leads us to believe that the criterion
based on the prediction of flexible loops – up to six – should
have higher resolution than the method based on indels, the
number of which is the same for EF1A for different sources.
We suppose that the new criterion might be complementary
protein phylogenies, based on alignments of particular sequences. |
Possible Role of Loops in Evolution of Elongations
Factors EF1A |
| Since the total number of loops predicted in the elongation
factors increases with complexity of organisms, we
propose the following role of these loops in evolution: holding to the principle of “thrifty inventiveness,” Nature operates
with various universal inserts (loops), adapting their
number and location among the factor domains, as well
as their amino acid compositions, so that the protein
could perform special functions: one in lower and several
in higher organisms. This principle resembles a wellknown
principle of the finite number of folding motifs in
globular proteins despite a tremendous number of these proteins
in nature. |
We suppose that the introduction of a new structural criterion
for phylogenetic analysis is interesting in itself, as,
despite the apparent abundance of molecular characteristics,
megasystematics and macrophylogeny lack an informative
criterion that could be useful the evolutionary relationships
among the main groups of modern organisms
(Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi). |
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