Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: White LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657897 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White Lewis J LJ Sutton Gemma G Shechonge Asilatu A Day Julia J JJ Dasmahapatra Kanchon K KK Pownall Mary E ME
Royal Society open science 20201014 10
Tetrapods and fish have adapted distinct carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (CPS) enzymes to initiate the ornithine urea cycle during the detoxification of nitrogenous wastes. We report evidence that in the ureotelic subgenus of extremophile fish <i>Oreochromis Alcolapia</i>, CPS III has undergone convergent evolution and adapted its substrate affinity to ammonia, which is typical of terrestrial vertebrate CPS I. Unusually, unlike in other vertebrates, the expression of CPS III in <i>Alcolapia</i> is ...[more]