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Impact of extracellularity on the evolutionary rate of mammalian proteins.

ABSTRACT: It is of fundamental importance to understand the determinants of the rate of protein evolution. Eukaryotic extracellular proteins are known to evolve faster than intracellular proteins. Although this rate difference appears to be due to the lower essentiality of extracellular proteins than intracellular proteins in yeast, we here show that, in mammals, the impact of extracellularity is independent from the impact of gene essentiality. Our partial correlation analysis indicated that the impact of extracellularity on mammalian protein evolutionary rate is also independent from those of tissue-specificity, expression level, gene compactness, and the number of protein-protein interactions and, surprisingly, is the strongest among all the factors we examined. Similar results were also found from principal component regression analysis. Our findings suggest that different rules govern the pace of protein sequence evolution in mammals and yeasts.

SUBMITTER: Liao BY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2839354 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Impact of extracellularity on the evolutionary rate of mammalian proteins.

Liao Ben-Yang BY Weng Meng-Pin MP Zhang Jianzhi J

Genome biology and evolution 20100106

It is of fundamental importance to understand the determinants of the rate of protein evolution. Eukaryotic extracellular proteins are known to evolve faster than intracellular proteins. Although this rate difference appears to be due to the lower essentiality of extracellular proteins than intracellular proteins in yeast, we here show that, in mammals, the impact of extracellularity is independent from the impact of gene essentiality. Our partial correlation analysis indicated that the impact o ...[more]

PMID: 20333223

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