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The Night Monkey, Aotes Triuirgatus (Cebidae, Platyrrhini, Anthropoidea) CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Volume 165, number 1 FEBS 1071 January 1984 The myoglobin of primates: the Night Monkey, Aotes triuirgatus (Cebidae, Platyrrhini, Anthropoidea) Nils Heinbokel and Hermann Lehmann Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 IQW, England Received 26 October 1983 The amino acid sequence of the myoglobin of the South American Night Monkey, Aotes trivirgatus, is identical to that of the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus [l]) except for residue 21 which is isoleucine in the marmoset, like in all other anthropoids, but valine in Aotes. Analysis of a possible pathway of the evolution of Aotes myoglobin using 18 known primate myoglobin sequences [2-51 supports the classification of the Night Monkey within Anthropoidea and Platyrrhini but it indicates that this species might be more closely related to the marmoset (family Callitrichidae) than to the family Cebidae as a member of which it is commonly classified. Aotes trivirgatus Myoglobin Sequential analysis Amino acid analysis High-performance liquid chromatography of peptides Molecular evolution 1. INTRODUCTION phylogeny of the Night Monkey based on im- munological comparisons of serum proteins [8,9] The small, purely arboreal South American and on &type haemoglobin chain sequences [lo] Night Monkey, Aotes trivirgatus, is the only noc- has not been conclusive. We determined the amino turnal species in the primate suborder An- acid sequence of the myoglobin of the Night thropoidea. Two thirds of the Prosimii, the other Monkey in order to reconstruct a possible pathway primate suborder, are exclusively nocturnal. This of the evolution of this protein using 18 known resemblance and other similarities of physical and primate myoglobin sequences aiming to obtain behavioural characteristics of Aotes and Prosimii some insights into the phylogenetic relationships of have mostly been considered as convergent adapta- this primate. tions without phylogenetic significance [6]. However, it has been suggested on dermatological 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS grounds that Aotes might be a New World prosi- mian [7]. Previous biomolecular evidence for the 2.1. Preparation of apomyoglobin Myoglobin was extracted from 80 g of A. trivirgatus hind limb muscle with 280 ml of 2 mM NaCn10.6 mM &Fe(CN)6, and the extract was Abbreviations: SDS, sodium dodecyl sulphate; RP-HPLC, reverse phase high-performance liquid centrifuged. The supernatant was adjusted to 55% chromatography; DABS-Cl, 4-N,N-dimethylaminoazo- ammonium sulphate saturation and the precipitate benzene-4 ’ -sulphonyl chloride; DABITC, 4-N, N-dime- removed by filtration. The filtrate was concen- thylaminoazobenzene-4’-isothiocyanate; PITC, phenyl- trated to 10 ml by pressure ultrafiltration (Amicon isothiocyanate PM 10 membrane). One hundred ml of 10 mM Published by Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. 46 00145793/84/$3.00 0 1984 Federation of European Biochemical Societies Volume 165, number 1 FEBS LETTERS January 1984 phosphate buffer containing 2 mM NaCN and with starting buffer and eluted stepwise with 10, 35 0.3% 2-mercaptoethanol (pH 6.35) were added and 100 mM phosphate buffer containing 2 mM and the volume again reduced to 10 ml by NaCN and 0.3% 2-mercaptoethanol (pH 6.35). ultrafiltration. This step was repeated 4 times. The Myoglobin was further purified by gel filtration sample was applied to a carboxymethyl ion- chromatography (Sephadex G-100, eluted with exchange column (Whatman CM 23) equilibrated 50 mM Tris-HCl containing 2 mM NaCN, pH 1 5 10 '5 20 25 30 Kb Gly Lcu SW Asp Gly Glu lbp Glr.Leu Val zlu Am Vnl Trp G:y Lys Ye1 Glu Ale kp Val Ra Set Is Gly Gln Glu Val Lu Ilc Kb I_____- CN% ,. IL4 ii __ iv SP il,tp _ ___^____ --_-w-4 Ch (SP) +-- Mb CN% 2 SP SP Cb (SP) Mb CN% SP2 SP Ch!SP) Ch Ch 95 loo . 105 110 '1'15 120 Kb Gln Scr Iii6Ala Ihr Lys Has Lya 110 Pro VlllLya Tyr Im Glu Pb* 118 SU kp Ala Ih Vel Hia V&l Lu Gin Lya Lp HilrFro CNEr SP5 Ch Ch Mb CN% CN% SP2 Mb (3% CN% TF TP SP Fig. 1. The complete amino acid sequence of Aotes trivirgatus apomyoglobin. Alignment of peptide sequences (CNBr, cyanogen bromide peptide; Tp, tryptic peptide; SP, Stuphyiococcm aweus protease peptide; Ch, chymotryptic peptide). (-) Amino acid sequences determined by the DABITUPITC double coupling method. (---) Amino acid residues deduced from the amino acid composition analysis. (- - -) Edman degradation; arrowhead indicates that the respective residue was not identified, 47 Volume 165, number 1 FEBS LETTERS January 1984 8.5). After desalting (Sephadex G-251, removal of vent system were resolved using linear gradients of the haem group using 1.5% HCl in acetone 10 mM ammonium acetate buffer, pH 6.05 or (-20°C) and lyophilization, 100 mg of a 6.55, in acetonitrile. The amino acid composition homogenous apomyoglobin preparation (as shown of peptide hydrolysates was determined by pre- by SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis and N- column derivatization of amino acids with DABS- terminal sequential analysis) were obtained. Cl followed by separation of the derivatives by RP-HPLC using a gradient of 50 mM sodium 2.2. Sequential analysis acetate buffer (pH 4.15) in acetonitrile [13]. The Ten-mg portions of apomyoglobin were cleaved amino acid composition of apomyoglobin was by treatment with CNBr and by digestion with determined on a conventional amino acid analyser. trypsin, chymotrypsin, and Staphylococcus aureus Amino acid sequences of peptides were determined strain V8 protease [1 11, respectively. Peptides ob- by the manual DABITWPITC double coupling tained from 50 to 100 nmol apomyoglobin were method 1141 using reduced reagent volumes and separated by RP-HPLC (Varian 5060 Liquid reaction times [ 151. Leucine and isoleucine residues Chromatograph) on analytical CIS columns were identified from the amino acid composition (Varian MicroPak MCH-5 and MCH-10, 30 x analyses of peptides or by dansyl-Edman degrada- 0.4 cm) using linear gradients of 0.1% (v/v) tion of suitable peptides. The complete sequence aqueous trifluoroacetic acid in acetonitrile [ 121. was obtained by alignment of overlapping peptide Four pairs of tryptic peptides coeluting in this sol- sequences. Fig.2. Reconstruction of primate myoglobin evolution [2,5]. The placement of A&es represents the most parsimonious solution. 48 Volume 165, number 1 FEBS LETTERS January 1984 3. RESULTS AND DfSCUSSXON ACKN~W~E~~EMENT We would like to thank Professor Michel Gof- Fig.1 shows the amino acid sequence of A. fart for providing muscle specimens, trivirgatus apomyoglobin. Of all known primate myoglobins ) Cdiithrix jacchus (marmoset) DEPOSITED MATERIALS myoglobin is most similar to A&es myogiobin. Their sequences differ only in position 21 where The foIlowing materials have been deposited in Calfithrix, like all other Anthropoidea, has the data bank: isoleucine whereas valine was found in Aotes. (i) amino acid composition analysis of Aotes Aotes myoglobin differs in 3-5 positions from the trivirgatus apomyoglobin; known myoglobins of Cebidae (Lagothrix, (ii) separation and sequential analyses of CNBr S~~rn~r~*Cebus), in I l-16 positions from those of peptides; Catarrhini and in 16-23 positions from prosimian (iii) separation, amino acid composition and se- myoglobins. Considering possible pathways of the quential analyses of tryptic and Staphylococ- evolution of Aotes myoglobin (fig.2), phylogenetic cus aureus protease peptides; and affinity of Aotes and the Prosimii appears to be (iv) separation and sequential analyses of very unlikely because A&es myoglobin shares ail chymotrypti~ peptides. 10 residues indicative of common ancestry of An- Details may be obtained from the Pubfisher, free thropoidea and Platyrrhini, Furthermore, there is of charge, quoting: no indication of a diphyletic origin of the Platyr- Data Bank number: FEBS 1071, FLDB/2, 165 rhini [16], To this extent the conventional (1984) 46-50. systematic classification of the Night Monkey is supported. However, in the most parsimonious tree of the Platyrrhini, Aotes is more closely REFERENCES related to the callitrichid Cdithrix than to the 111Romero-Herrera, A.E. and Lehmann, H. (1973) three Cebidae. Shared common ancestry of these Biochim. Biophys. 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Furthermore, this replacement could Anatomy and Taxonomy, vol.IV, Cebidae, part A, have been fixed in the platyrrhine common stem, p.149, University Press, Edinburgh, with a back mutation to alanine in Cebus (which 171Hanson, G. and Montagna, W. (1962) Am. J. would require two nucleotide replacements). Phys. Anthropol. 20, 421-429. However, an association of Aores and ~~~~~thr~x~ 181Sarich, V.M. and Cronin, J.E. (3976) in: MoIec&ar as indicated by the most parsimonious reconstruc- An~hro~lo~y. Genes and Proteins in the Evolutionary Ascent of the Primates (Goodman, tion of mutational events, is in line with Gregory’s M.
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