Evolution of the Highly Repetitive PEVK Region of Titin Across Mammals

G3 : Genes - Genomes - Genetics
Kathleen MuenzenFindley R Finseth

Abstract

The protein titin plays a key role in vertebrate muscle where it acts like a giant molecular spring. Despite its importance and conservation over vertebrate evolution, a lack of high quality annotations in non-model species makes comparative evolutionary studies of titin challenging. The PEVK region of titin-named for its high proportion of Pro-Glu-Val-Lys amino acids-is particularly difficult to annotate due to its abundance of alternatively spliced isoforms and short, highly repetitive exons. To understand PEVK evolution across mammals, we developed a bioinformatics tool, PEVK_Finder, to annotate PEVK exons from genomic sequences of titin and applied it to a diverse set of mammals. PEVK_Finder consistently outperforms standard annotation tools across a broad range of conditions and improves annotations of the PEVK region in non-model mammalian species. We find that the PEVK region can be divided into two subregions (PEVK-N, PEVK-C) with distinct patterns of evolutionary constraint and divergence. The bipartite nature of the PEVK region has implications for titin diversification. In the PEVK-N region, certain exons are conserved and may be essential, but natural selection also acts on particular codons. In the PEVK-C, exons ar...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
RNA-Seq

Software Mentioned

MEGA Proto
MEGA7
CC
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool ( BLAST
Ensembl genome browser
PAML
GENSCAN
PEVK Finder
PEVK
Finder

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