Gene amplification and cold adaptation of pepsin in Antarctic fish. A possible strategy for food digestion at low temperature (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Gene amplification and cold adaptation of pepsin in Antarctic fish. A possible strategy for food digestion at low temperature (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2004-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.gene.2004.04.030 (literal)
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  • Carginale V.; Trinchella F.; Capasso C.; Scudiero R.; Parisi E. (2004)
    Gene amplification and cold adaptation of pepsin in Antarctic fish. A possible strategy for food digestion at low temperature
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  • Carginale V.; Trinchella F.; Capasso C.; Scudiero R.; Parisi E. (literal)
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  • CNR, Inst Prot Biochem, I-80125 Naples, Italy Univ Naples Federico II, Dept Evolutionary & Comparat Biol, Naples, Italy (literal)
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  • Gene amplification and cold adaptation of pepsin in Antarctic fish. A possible strategy for food digestion at low temperature (literal)
Abstract
  • Cold-adapted organisms have developed a number of adjustments at the molecular level to maintain metabolic functions at low temperatures. Among other features, they can produce enzymes characterized by a high turnover number or a high catalytic efficiency. The present work is aimed at investigating the process of food digestion at low temperature through the study of pepsins in Antarctic notothenioids. For such a purpose, we have cloned and sequenced three forms of pepsin A and a single form of gastricsin from the gastric mucosa of Trematomus bernacchii (rock cod). Phylogenetic analysis has suggested that the three pepsin A isotypes arose from two gene duplication events leading to the most ancestral pepsin A3 and to the most recent forms represented by pepsin A1 and pepsin A2. Molecular modeling has unraveled significant structural differences in these enzymes with respect to their mesophilic counterparts. Hydropathy and flexibility determined on the substrate-binding subsites of Antarctic and mesophilic pepsins have shown for pepsin A2 reduced hydropathy and increased flexibility at the level of the substrate cleft, features typical of cold-adapted enzymes. Northern blot analysis of RNA from rock cod gastric mucosa hybridized with molecular probes designed on specific regions of different pepsin forms has shown that rock cod pepsin genes are expressed at comparable levels. The present results suggest that the Antarctic rock cod adopted two different strategies to accomplish efficient protein digestion at low temperature. One mechanism is the gene duplication that increases enzyme production to compensate for the reduced kinetic efficiency, the other is the expression of a new enzyme provided with features typical of cold-adapted enzymes. (literal)
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