Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2005
Journal of Heredity 2005 96(3):205-211; doi:10.1093/jhered/esi024
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© 2005 The American Genetic Association
Evolution of New Hormone Function: Loss and Gain of a Receptor
From the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, 100 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G lL5
Address correspondence to David M. Irwin at the address above, or e-mail: david.irwin{at}utoronto.ca.
The vertebrate proglucagon gene encodes three glucagon-like sequences (glucagon, glucagon-like peptide-1 [GLP-1], and glucagon-like peptide 2 [GLP-2]) that have distinct functions in regulating metabolism in mammals. In contrast, glucagon and GLP-1 have similar physiological actions in fish, that of mammalian glucagon. We have identified sequences similar to receptors for proglucagon-derived peptides from the genomes of two fish (pufferfish and zebrafish), a frog (Xenopus tropicalis), and a bird (chicken). Phylogenetic analysis of the receptor sequences suggested an explanation for the divergent function of GLP-1 in fish and mammals. The phylogeny of our predicted and characterized receptors for proglucagon-derived peptides demonstrate that receptors for glucagon, GLP-1, and GLP-2 have an origin before the divergence of fish and mammals; however, fish have lost the gene encoding the GLP-1 class of receptors, and likely the incretin action of GLP-1. Receptors that bind GLP-1, but yield glucagon-like action, have been characterized in goldfish and zebrafish, and these sequences are most closely related to glucagon receptors. Both pufferfish and zebrafish have a second glucagon receptor-like gene that is most closely related to the characterized goldfish glucagon receptor. The phylogeny of glucagon receptor-like genes in fish indicates that a duplication of the glucagon receptor gene occurred on the ancestral fish lineage, and could explain the shared action of glucagon and GLP-1. We suggest that the binding specificity of one of the duplicated glucagon receptors has diverged, yielding receptors for GLP-1 and glucagon, but that ancestral downstream signaling has been maintained, resulting in both receptors retaining glucagon-stimulated downstream effects.
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