Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins.
GFP-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the key color determinants in reef-building corals (class Anthozoa, order Scleractinia) and are of considerable interest as potential genetically encoded fluorescent labels. Here we report 40 additional members of the GFP family from corals. There are three ma...
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| author | Naila O Alieva Karen A Konzen Steven F Field Ella A Meleshkevitch Marguerite E Hunt Victor Beltran-Ramirez David J Miller Jörg Wiedenmann Anya Salih Mikhail V Matz |
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| description | GFP-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the key color determinants in reef-building corals (class Anthozoa, order Scleractinia) and are of considerable interest as potential genetically encoded fluorescent labels. Here we report 40 additional members of the GFP family from corals. There are three major paralogous lineages of coral FPs. One of them is retained in all sampled coral families and is responsible for the non-fluorescent purple-blue color, while each of the other two evolved a full complement of typical coral fluorescent colors (cyan, green, and red) and underwent sorting between coral groups. Among the newly cloned proteins are a "chromo-red" color type from Echinopora forskaliana (family Faviidae) and pink chromoprotein from Stylophora pistillata (Pocilloporidae), both evolving independently from the rest of coral chromoproteins. There are several cyan FPs that possess a novel kind of excitation spectrum indicating a neutral chromophore ground state, for which the residue E167 is responsible (numeration according to GFP from A. victoria). The chromoprotein from Acropora millepora is an unusual blue instead of purple, which is due to two mutations: S64C and S183T. We applied a novel probabilistic sampling approach to recreate the common ancestor of all coral FPs as well as the more derived common ancestor of three main fluorescent colors of the Faviina suborder. Both proteins were green such as found elsewhere outside class Anthozoa. Interestingly, a substantial fraction of the all-coral ancestral protein had a chromohore apparently locked in a non-fluorescent neutral state, which may reflect the transitional stage that enabled rapid color diversification early in the history of coral FPs. Our results highlight the extent of convergent or parallel evolution of the color diversity in corals, provide the foundation for experimental studies of evolutionary processes that led to color diversification, and enable a comparative analysis of structural determinants of different colors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04ca605a135d4b5583df68d4b8d61b502022-12-22T01:30:52ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032008-07-0137e268010.1371/journal.pone.0002680Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins.Naila O AlievaKaren A KonzenSteven F FieldElla A MeleshkevitchMarguerite E HuntVictor Beltran-RamirezDavid J MillerJörg WiedenmannAnya SalihMikhail V MatzGFP-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the key color determinants in reef-building corals (class Anthozoa, order Scleractinia) and are of considerable interest as potential genetically encoded fluorescent labels. Here we report 40 additional members of the GFP family from corals. There are three major paralogous lineages of coral FPs. One of them is retained in all sampled coral families and is responsible for the non-fluorescent purple-blue color, while each of the other two evolved a full complement of typical coral fluorescent colors (cyan, green, and red) and underwent sorting between coral groups. Among the newly cloned proteins are a "chromo-red" color type from Echinopora forskaliana (family Faviidae) and pink chromoprotein from Stylophora pistillata (Pocilloporidae), both evolving independently from the rest of coral chromoproteins. There are several cyan FPs that possess a novel kind of excitation spectrum indicating a neutral chromophore ground state, for which the residue E167 is responsible (numeration according to GFP from A. victoria). The chromoprotein from Acropora millepora is an unusual blue instead of purple, which is due to two mutations: S64C and S183T. We applied a novel probabilistic sampling approach to recreate the common ancestor of all coral FPs as well as the more derived common ancestor of three main fluorescent colors of the Faviina suborder. Both proteins were green such as found elsewhere outside class Anthozoa. Interestingly, a substantial fraction of the all-coral ancestral protein had a chromohore apparently locked in a non-fluorescent neutral state, which may reflect the transitional stage that enabled rapid color diversification early in the history of coral FPs. Our results highlight the extent of convergent or parallel evolution of the color diversity in corals, provide the foundation for experimental studies of evolutionary processes that led to color diversification, and enable a comparative analysis of structural determinants of different colors.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2481297?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Naila O Alieva Karen A Konzen Steven F Field Ella A Meleshkevitch Marguerite E Hunt Victor Beltran-Ramirez David J Miller Jörg Wiedenmann Anya Salih Mikhail V Matz Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. PLoS ONE |
| title | Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. |
| title_full | Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. |
| title_fullStr | Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. |
| title_short | Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. |
| title_sort | diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2481297?pdf=render |
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