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+[[!meta title="Phylogenetic Analyses of Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 6 Genes in Tunicates: Possible Horizontal Transfer."]]
+[[!tag cellulose Oikopleura]]
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+Li KL, Nakashima K, Inoue J, Satoh N.
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+Genes (Basel). 2020 Aug 13;11(8):937. doi:10.3390/genes11080937
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+Phylogenetic Analyses of Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 6 Genes in Tunicates: Possible Horizontal Transfer.
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+[[!pmid 32823766 desc="Comparison of primary sequence and of intron position suggests that GHC6-1 was transferred in a common ancestor of all living tunicates. _O. dioica_'s GH6-1 gene lacks a conserved catalytic aspartate, and does not share introns with the other tunicate genes."]]
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+“We found that in many tunicate GH6-1 proteins, an aspartic acid can be aligned to the catalytic _H. jecorina_ D221, except for SthGH6-1b (E197) and OdiGH6-1 (K211). However, the catalytic aspartic acid was not conserved in tunicate CesA.”
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+“In this study, although we found no other sites shared between genes of _O. dioica_ and other tunicates, we found that many shared splice sites are present among GH6-containing genes from three other major clades of tunicates (Thaliacea + Phlebobranchia + Stolidobranchia). It is reasonable to assume that many shared introns were acquired after the branching of larvaceans and before the subsequent divergence of major tunicate clades.”
intestinalis_ ([[Matthysse and coll., 2004|biblio/14722352]]).
- A GH6 (glycosyl hydrolase family 6) domain is found in the CesA genes,
as well as an independent genes, in Tunicates
- ([[Inoue, Nakashima and Satoh, 2019|biblio/30974905]]).
+ ([[Inoue, Nakashima and Satoh, 2019|biblio/30974905]]). In _Oikopleura_, it
+ lacks a conserved catalytic aspatate, and does not share ancestral introns with
+ other tunicates ([[Li and coll., 2020|biblio/32823766]]).
- _O. dioica_ has multiple CDK1 and Cyclin B paraplogs, some of which are
implicated in oogenesis ([[Øvrebø and coll., 2015|biblio/25714331]],
[[Feng & Thompson, 2018|biblio/29969934]]).