Author: Zámocký, Marcel

Source: FEBS Journal, Volume 271, Number 16, August 2004 , pp. 3297-3309(13)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

Molecular phylogeny among catalase-peroxidases, cytochrome c peroxidases, and ascorbate peroxidases was analysed. Sixty representative sequences covering all known subgroups of class I of the superfamily of bacterial, fungal, and plant heme peroxidases were selected. Each sequence analysed contained the typical peroxidase motifs evolved to bind effectively the prosthetic heme group, enabling peroxidatic activity. The N-terminal and C-terminal domains of catalase-peroxidases matching the ancestral tandem gene duplication event were treated separately in the phylogenetic analysis to reveal their specific evolutionary history. The inferred unrooted phylogenetic tree obtained by three different methods revealed the existence of four clearly separated clades (C-terminal and N-terminal domains of catalase-peroxidases, ascorbate peroxidases, and cytochrome c peroxidases) which were segregated early in the evolution of this superfamily. From the results, it is obvious that the duplication event in the gene for catalase-peroxidase occurred in the later phase of evolution, in which the individual specificities of the peroxidase families distinguished were already formed. Evidence is presented that class I of the heme peroxidase superfamily is spread among prokaryotes and eukaryotes, obeying the birth-and-death process of multigene family evolution.

Keywords: ascorbate peroxidase; catalase-peroxidase; cytochrome c peroxidase; birth-and-death process; lateral gene transfer

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04262.x

Publication date: 2004-08-01

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