In:
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, American Physiological Society, Vol. 312, No. 5 ( 2017-05-01), p. R671-R680
Abstract:
Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) subunit 4 has two paralogs in most vertebrates. The mammalian COX4-2 gene is hypoxia responsive, and the protein has a disrupted ATP-binding site that confers kinetic properties on COX that distinguish it from COX4-1. The structure-function of COX4-2 orthologs in other vertebrates remains uncertain. Phylogenetic analyses suggest the two paralogs arose in basal vertebrates, but COX4-2 orthologs diverged faster than COX4-1 orthologs. COX4-1/4-2 protein levels in tilapia tracked mRNA levels across tissues, and did not change in hypoxia, arguing against a role for differential post-translational regulation of paralogs. The heart, and to a lesser extent the brain, showed a size-dependent shift from COX4-1 to COX4-2 (transcript and protein). ATP allosterically inhibited both velocity and affinity for oxygen in COX assayed from both muscle (predominantly COX4-2) and gill (predominantly COX4-1). We saw some evidence of cellular and subcellular discrimination of COX4 paralogs in heart. In cardiac ventricle, some non-cardiomyocyte cells were COX positive but lacked detectible COX4-2. Within heart, the two proteins partitioned to different mitochondrial subpopulations. Cardiac subsarcolemmal mitochondria had mostly COX4-1 and intermyofibrillar mitochondria had mostly COX4-2. Collectively, these data argue that, despite common evolutionary origins, COX4-2 orthologs of fish show unique patterns of subfunctionalization with respect to transcriptional and posttranslation regulation relative to the rodents and primates that have been studied to date.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0363-6119
,
1522-1490
DOI:
10.1152/ajpregu.00479.2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Physiological Society
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1477297-8
SSG:
12
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