Origins and early evolution of the mevalonate pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis in the three domains of life

Molecular Biology and Evolution
Jonathan Lombard, David Moreira

Abstract

Isoprenoids are a very diverse family of organic compounds widespread in the three domains of life. Although they are produced from the condensation of the same precursors in all organisms (isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate), the evolutionary origin of their biosynthesis remains controversial. Two independent nonhomologous metabolic pathways are known: the mevalonate (MVA) pathway in eukaryotes and archaea and the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway in bacteria and several photosynthetic eukaryotes. The MVA pathway is also found in a few bacteria, what has been explained in previous works by recent acquisition by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from eukaryotic or archaeal donors. To reconsider the question of the evolutionary origin of the MVA pathway, we have studied the origin and the evolution of the enzymes of this pathway using phylogenomic analyses upon a taxon-rich sequence database. On the one hand, our results confirm the conservation in archaea of an MVA pathway partially different from eukaryotes. This implies that each domain of life possesses a characteristic major isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway: the classical MVA pathway in eukaryotes, a modified MVA pathway in archaea, and the MEP pathw...Continue Reading

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