Large-scale analysis of the PAC domain structure of arogenate dehydratases reveals their evolutionary patterns in
Jie Li1, Ju Guan2, Shengfu Zhong2
1Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211, Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China; Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611134, China.
Abstract:
Arogenate dehydratase (ADT) is the key limiting enzyme of plant phenylalanine biosynthesis, but some ADTs display a prephenate decarboxylase/dehydratase activity-conferring (PAC) domain. The genome resources of 70 species were employed to identify genes and outline their characteristics, especially the number and type of PAC domain structures. We obtained 522 ADTs, and their size, exon number, amino acid number and putative protein isoelectric point greatly varied from 306 to 2520 bp, 1 to 15, 101 to 839 and 4.37 to 11.18, respectively. We classified the ADTs into Class α (without a PAC domain) (115, 22.0 %), β (with a type I PAC domain) (244, 46.7 %) and γ (with a type II PAC domain) (163, 31.2 %), and their distribution frequencies exhibited large differences among various branches of angiosperms. We found that Class γ members are more conserved than Class β members, although they commonly experienced multiple duplication events and strong purifying selection, which resulted in a small number, and the putative origin order was from Class α to β and then to γ. In addition, the co-occurrence of both Class β and γ members could ensure the survival of angiosperms, while their optimized composition and strategically intertwined regulation may facilitate core eudicot success.
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