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Evolution of thesrc-related protein tyrosine kinases

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Abstract

A phylogenetic analysis ofsrc-related protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) showed that one group of these genes is quite ancient in the animals, its divergence predating the divergence of the diploblast and triploblast phyla. Three other major groupings of genes were found to predate the divergence of protostome and deuterostome phyla. Most knownsrc-related PTKs of mammals were found to belong to five well-differentiated families: srcA, srcB, abl, csk, and tec. One srcA gene (fyn) has an alternatively spliced seventh exon which shows a different pattern of relationship from the remainder of the gene; this suggests that this exon may have been derived by a recombinational event with another gene, perhaps one related tofgr. The recently published claim that mammalian members of this family expressed in the nervous system evolve more slowly at nonsynonymous nucleotide sites than do those expressed in the immune system was not supported by an analysis of 13 pairs of human and mouse orthologues. Rather, T-cell-specificsrc-related PTKs were found to have higher rates of nonsynonymous substitution than were those having broader expression. This effect was particularly marked in the peptide binding site of the SH2 domain. While the SH2 binding site was highly conserved among paralogous mammalian members of the srcA and srcB subfamilies, no such effect was seen in the comparison of paralogous members of the csk and tec subfamilies. This suggests that, while the peptide binding function of SH2 is conserved within both srcA and srcB subfamilies, paralogous members of the csk and tec subfamilies have diverged functionally with respect to peptide recognition by SH2.

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Hughes, A.L. Evolution of thesrc-related protein tyrosine kinases. J Mol Evol 42, 247–256 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198851

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