A comparative account of the structure of the growth hormone encoding gene and genetic interrelationship in six species of the genus <Emphasis Type="Italic">Labeo</Emphasis> |
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| Authors: | R Rajesh K C Majumdar |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500 007, India |
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| Abstract: | The growth hormone (GH) gene isolated and cloned from various Labeo species (L. rohita, L. calbasu, L. fimbriatus, L. gonius, L. bata, and L. kontius) is shown to contain a single copy in the haploid genome, with an overall size of ∼2.5 kb. The GH gene in all the Labeo species studied has five exons and four introns of various sizes with the exon/intron boundary sequence of GT/AG. The length
variation of the GH gene between the species is found to be due to length variation in the form of several deletions in the
third intron. The length of individual exons is the same in all the species with an open reading frame (ORF) of 630 bp (210
amino acids) except in L. rohita, which has a 9 bp deletion in the fourth exon, resulting in a shorter GH of 621 bp (207 amino acids). The similarity in the
nucleotide and amino acid sequences between the different Labeo species is greater than 97%, in spite of eight amino acids being altered in the GH protein of Labeo that reside outside the conserved domain sequence required for its function. Nucleotide substitutions are seen in the form
of 20 transitions and three transversions in the ORF of the GH gene. Both types of transitions (A–G; T–C) and only one type
of transversion (A–C) are detected in the GH gene. Codon preference in GH gene shows a strong preference for G and C in the
wobble position of the codons. Genetic interrelationships determined between Labeo and other species of fishes using nucleotide sequence of GH cDNA supports the overall teleost classification of Nelson (Fishes
of the World. Wiley, New York, 1984) with separate clades for Ostariophysi, Protacanthopterygii, and Acanthopterygii. Besides, the unweighted pair group method
with arithmetic means (UPGMA) analysis clearly distinguishes between the species having five exons and four introns in the
GH gene from the species having six exons and five introns in the same gene. The Labeo species analyzed in the present study could be clustered into two groups using the maximum-parsimony method on the intron
sequences data of the GH gene. |
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| Keywords: | Codon preference DNA phylogeny Growth hormone gene Intron sequences Labeo |
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