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  • Title: A most primitive primodial gene as a building block of the genes for the adenylate kinase, F1-ATPase subunits (epsilon and gamma), aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, and core enzyme subunits.
    Author: Ohnishi K.
    Journal: Nucleic Acids Symp Ser; 1986; (17):127-30. PubMed ID: 2882490.
    Abstract:
    Internal homology units of F1-ATPase epsilon and gamma subunits were searched by computer-aided methods. The epsilon in E. coli (EC) and maize chloroplast (Ch1) was found to consist of three homologous domains, named domains I, II and III (amino acids 1-47, 48-95 and 96-139 for EC). The gamma in E. coli was demonstrated to have at least six homologous domains, tentatively named here domains I-III and V-VII (I = aa 1-23, II = 26-69, III = 71-112, V = 150-192, VI = 196-242, VII = 285-329), with leaving a region IV (113-149) unclassified. Adenylate kinases (AK's) in pig and E. coli were found to have three internal homology units, named I, I' and II (I = aa 1-47, I' = 48-79, II = 80-124 for pig). Statistical evaluations and dot matrix analyses at both base and amino acid sequence levels have confirmed that all of these repeating units, being about 46 amino acids long, are homologous with one another. Of these, epsilon III, II, gamma VII and AK II domains were most conservative and some of them showed homology to core enzyme alpha and an internal repeating unit of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (Trp-RS). Thus these homology unit-encoding gene segments must be relics of a primodial gene.
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