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    Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation (2006)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2006-04-08
    Description: According to Darwinian theory, complexity evolves by a stepwise process of elaboration and optimization under natural selection. Biological systems composed of tightly integrated parts seem to challenge this view, because it is not obvious how any element's function can be selected for unless the partners with which it interacts are already present. Here we demonstrate how an integrated molecular system-the specific functional interaction between the steroid hormone aldosterone and its partner the mineralocorticoid receptor-evolved by a stepwise Darwinian process. Using ancestral gene resurrection, we show that, long before the hormone evolved, the receptor's affinity for aldosterone was present as a structural by-product of its partnership with chemically similar, more ancient ligands. Introducing two amino acid changes into the ancestral sequence recapitulates the evolution of present-day receptor specificity. Our results indicate that tight interactions can evolve by molecular exploitation-recruitment of an older molecule, previously constrained for a different role, into a new functional complex.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bridgham, Jamie T -- Carroll, Sean M -- Thornton, Joseph W -- F32-GM074398/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Apr 7;312(5770):97-101.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16601189" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aldosterone/chemistry/*metabolism ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Bayes Theorem ; Binding Sites ; Desoxycorticosterone/metabolism ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Gene Duplication ; Hagfishes ; Hydrocortisone/metabolism ; Lampreys ; Ligands ; Mutation ; Perciformes ; Phylogeny ; Rats ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Receptors, Mineralocorticoid/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Receptors, Steroid/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Skates (Fish)
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Crystal structure of an ancient protein: evolution by conformational epistasis (2007)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2007-08-19
    Description: The structural mechanisms by which proteins have evolved new functions are known only indirectly. We report x-ray crystal structures of a resurrected ancestral protein-the approximately 450 million-year-old precursor of vertebrate glucocorticoid (GR) and mineralocorticoid (MR) receptors. Using structural, phylogenetic, and functional analysis, we identify the specific set of historical mutations that recapitulate the evolution of GR's hormone specificity from an MR-like ancestor. These substitutions repositioned crucial residues to create new receptor-ligand and intraprotein contacts. Strong epistatic interactions occur because one substitution changes the conformational position of another site. "Permissive" mutations-substitutions of no immediate consequence, which stabilize specific elements of the protein and allow it to tolerate subsequent function-switching changes-played a major role in determining GR's evolutionary trajectory.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2519897/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2519897/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ortlund, Eric A -- Bridgham, Jamie T -- Redinbo, Matthew R -- Thornton, Joseph W -- F32-GM074398/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM081592/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM081592-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM081592-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-DK622229/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM081592/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Sep 14;317(5844):1544-8. Epub 2007 Aug 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17702911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aldosterone/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Epistasis, Genetic ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Humans ; Hydrocortisone/metabolism ; Ligands ; Likelihood Functions ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Phylogeny ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/*chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Receptors, Mineralocorticoid/*chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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