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Gene Cooption and Convergent Evolution of Oxygen Transport Hemoglobins in Jawed and Jawless Vertebrates Gene cooption and convergent evolution of oxygen transport hemoglobins in jawed and jawless vertebrates Federico G. Hoffmanna, Juan C. Opazob, and Jay F. Storza,1 aSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588; and bInstituto de Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile Edited* by Morris Goodman, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, and approved July 6, 2010 (received for review May 14, 2010) Natural selection often promotes evolutionary innovation by coopt- Phylogenetic studies have revealed that vertebrate globins fall ing preexisting genes for new functions, and this process may be into two distinct clades. One clade contains GbX and Ngb, two greatly facilitated by gene duplication. Here we report an example highly divergent genes, which appear to be more closely related of cooptive convergence where paralogous members of the globin to annelid intracellular globins than to any other vertebrate gene superfamily independently evolved a specialized O2 transport globins (20, 21). The other clade contains a set of genes that are function in the two deepest branches of the vertebrate family tree. products of vertebrate-specific duplication events: Cygb, GbE, Specifically, phylogenetic evidence demonstrates that erythroid- GbY, Mb, and the Hbs of jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes) and fi speci cO2 transport hemoglobins evolved independently from dif- jawless fish (cyclostomes, represented by lampreys and hagfish) ferent ancestral precursor proteins in jawed vertebrates (gnathos- (20–22, 28). The monophyly of these vertebrate-specific globins tomes) and jawless fish (cyclostomes, represented by lamprey and is well supported (20, 21), but phylogenetic relationships within hagfish). A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the vertebrate this group remain highly uncertain. globin gene superfamily revealed that the erythroid hemoglobins of Because the passive diffusion of O2 in blood plasma is not cyclostomes are orthologous to the cytoglobin protein of gnathos- generally sufficient to meet the metabolic demands of large, tome vertebrates, a hexacoordinate globin that has no O2 transport active animals, the evolution of Hb-mediated blood–O2 trans- function and that is predominantly expressed in fibroblasts and port represented a key physiological innovation in vertebrate life related cell types. The phylogeny reconstruction also revealed that that opened up new opportunities for the evolution of aerobic vertebrate-specific globins are grouped into four main clades: (i) metabolism. In gnathostomes, Hb is a tetrameric protein as- cyclostome hemoglobin + cytoglobin, (ii) myoglobin + globin E, sembled from two α-chain and two β-chain subunits. The pro- (iii) globin Y, and (iv)theα- and β-chain hemoglobins of gnathos- genitors of the α- and β-globin gene families arose via tandem tomes. In the hemoglobins of gnathostomes and cyclostomes, multi- duplication of an ancestral, single-copy globin gene approxi- subunit quaternary structures provide the basis for cooperative O2 mately 450–500 mya, after the gnathostome common ancestor binding and allosteric regulation by coupling the effects of ligand diverged from jawless fishes (29–31). In the α2β2 Hb tetramers of binding at individual subunits with interactions between subunits. most extant gnathostomes, the cooperativity of O2 binding stems However, differences in numerous structural details belie their in- from an oxygenation-linked transition in quaternary structure. dependent origins. This example of convergent evolution of protein The origin of cooperativity was preceded by the gene duplication function provides an impressive demonstration of the ability of nat- that gave rise to structurally distinct α- and β-chain subunits (11, ural selection to cobble together complex design solutions by tin- 30, 32). By contrast, in the Hbs of extant cyclostomes, coopera- kering with different variations of the same basic protein scaffold. tivity of O2 binding stems from oxygenation-linked dissociation of multimers into ligated monomers (33–39). For this reason, cytoglobin | gene family evolution | globin | hagfish | lamprey cyclostome Hbs have been considered “... a transition stage between invertebrate and vertebrate hemoglobins” (40). Phylo- atural selection often promotes evolutionary innovation by genetic studies of vertebrate globins have presented tree topol- Ncoopting preexisting genes for new functions. Gene coop- ogies that are not consistent with a single origin of O2 transport tion may have played a role in major episodes of adaptive change Hbs (22, 28, 41). However, incomplete sampling of taxa and gene in multicellular organisms, and it appears to be an important lineages has not permitted any definitive conclusions. mechanism for generating morphological and physiological di- Here we report a comprehensive phylogenetic reconstruction versity (1–5). Gene duplication may be an especially important of the vertebrate globin gene superfamily that includes repre- facilitator of cooptive evolution (6). This is well illustrated in the sentatives from each of the major lineages of gnathostomes as vertebrate globin gene superfamily, because there are several well as cyclostomes. Results of this analysis revealed that the well-documented cases where paralogous gene copies have ac- erythroid Hbs of cyclostomes and gnathostomes are not orthol- quired distinct physiological functions and/or patterns of ex- ogous proteins. Instead, the functionally similar O2 transport pression (7–11). proteins were coopted from phylogenetically distinct and an- Globins are ancient proteins that are present in each of the ciently diverged globin protein precursors. This represents an three domains of life (11–13). Throughout the 20th century, myo- example of “cooptive convergence,” where paralogous members globin (Mb; an O2 storage protein in muscle) and hemoglobin (Hb; of the same gene family independently evolve the same spe- an O2 transport protein in red blood cells) were the only known globin proteins in vertebrates (8, 14). Early in the 21st century, comparative genomic studies revealed a surprising diversity of Author contributions: F.G.H., J.C.O., and J.F.S. designed research; performed research; novel globin genes in vertebrates, including neuroglobin (Ngb) analyzed data; and wrote the paper. (15), cytoglobin (Cygb) (16–18), globin-E (GbE) (19), globin-X The authors declare no conflict of interest. (GbX) (20), and globin-Y (GbY) (21). The discovery of these novel *This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor. globin genes has motivated experimental studies to elucidate their 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]. physiological functions and evolutionary studies to assess their This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. phylogenetic affinities and taxonomic distributions (22–28). 1073/pnas.1006756107/-/DCSupplemental. 14274–14279 | PNAS | August 10, 2010 | vol. 107 | no. 32 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1006756107 Downloaded by guest on September 23, 2021 cialization of function in different lineages. After being pressed Bayesian posterior probability of 1.00 (Fig. 1). Cyclostome Hbs, into service as O2 transport proteins, the two paralogous globins Cygb, GbE, GbYs, and Mb were all placed in strongly supported independently evolved similar biochemical properties in extant monophyletic groups, with maximum likelihood bootstrap support cyclostomes and gnathostomes. values that ranged from 96% to 100% and Bayesian posterior The Hbs of cyclostome and gnathostome vertebrates are en- probabilities ≥0.99. Our phylogeny reconstructions also grouped capsulated in red blood cells and both proteins provide a highly the vertebrate-specific globins into four distinct clades: (i)cyclo- α efficient means of O2 transport from the respiratory surfaces to stome Hb + Cygb, (ii) Mb + GbE, (iii)GbY,and(iv)the -and the cells of metabolizing tissues while also contributing to the β-chain Hbs of gnathostomes (this latter clade is sister to the other fi transport of CO2 back to the gas exchange organs. The efficiency three clades of vertebrate-speci c globins) (Fig. 1). of both Hbs as O2 transport proteins stems from subunit–subunit We performed a comprehensive sensitivity analysis to evaluate interactions (homotropic effects), which account for the coop- how the phylogenetic results were affected by the use of different erativity of O2 binding, and the deoxygenation-linked binding of alignment algorithms, the use of different amino acid substi- allosteric ligands (heterotropic effects), which provides a mech- tution models, and the use of different outgroup sequences (e.g., anism for the cellular regulation of Hb–O2 affinity. In the Hbs of vertebrate GbX or globins from basal chordates such as the sea cyclostomes and gnathostomes, cooperativity and allosteric regula- squirt, Ciona intestinalis). To do this, we performed phylogenetic tion are made possible by oxygenation-linked changes in quaternary searches for 10 alternative alignments of our sequences under structure (42). Thus, the O2 transport Hbs of both taxa convergently three different models of amino acid substitution. In each of evolved distinct forms of both homotropic and heterotropic co- these different analyses, vertebrate globins consistently fell into operative effects from different ancestral protein monomers that the four main clades described above, and cyclostome Hb was lacked cooperativity. invariably
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