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Kamlarova, A; Chovanova, K; Zamocky, M.
(2018):
Peculiar genes for thermostable bifunctional catalase-peroxidases in Chaetomium thermophilum and their molecular evolution
GENE. 2018; 666: 83-91.
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- Abstract:
- Catalase-peroxidases represent one important subfamily of ancestral antioxidant enzymes originally evolved in bacteria for the protection against various forms of oxidative stress. KatG genes coding for these bifunctional catalase-peroxidases were during their peculiar evolution transferred from Bacteroidetes to the fungal phylum Ascomycota via a horizontal gene transfer event. Here we analyse a newly discovered fungal katG gene without introns coding for a thermostable catalase-peroxidase from Chaetomium thermophilum var. dissitum and compare it with closely related thermophilic and mesophilic katGs and their translation products. We show that CthediskatG gene resembling its bacterial counterparts has a typical eukaryotic transcription start site and also contains a conserved eukaryotic polyadenylation signal behind its 3xxx terminus. Moreover, we have detected polyA tails in corresponding transcripts of katG from two different mRNA libraries of C. thermophilum var. dis-stum Although otherwise highly conserved, only in katG genes of two C. thermophilum variants a unique 60 bp long deletion leading in the translated product with high probability to a modified loop and thus access to the prosthetic heme group was observed. We also present an updated molecular phylogeny revealing the evolutionary position of fungal thermostable catalase-peroxidases within a robust phylogenetic tree of the whole KatG subfamily.
- Authors BOKU Wien:
- Zamocky Marcel
- Find related publications in this database (Keywords)
- Catalase-peroxidase
- Molecular phylogeny
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Peroxidase-catalase superfamily
- Thermophilic fungi
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