2000
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m005625200
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Ω-Crystallin of the Scallop Lens

Abstract: While many of the diverse crystallins of the transparent lens of vertebrates are related or identical to metabolic enzymes, much less is known about the lens crystallins of invertebrates. Here we investigate the complex eye of scallops. Electron microscopic inspection revealed that the anterior, single layered corneal epithelium overlying the cellular lens contains a regular array of microvilli that we propose might contribute to its optical properties. The sole crystallin of the scallop eye lens was found to … Show more

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“…The hits include the JI jellyfish lens crystallins (29) and the zebrafish SelJ selenoprotein (30), indicating that the ARH fold may have been adopted to also serve structural functions. It is interesting to note, however, that neither PSI-BLAST nor secondary-structure prediction analyses revealed any sequence or structural resemblance of PARG to the ARH3͞DRAG protein family (28).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The hits include the JI jellyfish lens crystallins (29) and the zebrafish SelJ selenoprotein (30), indicating that the ARH fold may have been adopted to also serve structural functions. It is interesting to note, however, that neither PSI-BLAST nor secondary-structure prediction analyses revealed any sequence or structural resemblance of PARG to the ARH3͞DRAG protein family (28).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The ARH fold is completely different from that of arginase (PDB ID code 1RLA) (32), which contains a binuclear Mn center and which has been used in a previous study as a model for DRAG (18). PSI-BLAST analyses indicate that the new ARH fold is widely spread in nature and may serve various enzymatic (i.e., hydrolysis of protein-ADP-ribosyl and polyADP-ribosyl bonds) as well as structural functions (i.e., lens crystallins in jellyfish and zebrafish) (29,30). Importantly, the results of PSI-BLAST, structure prediction, and threading analyses do not show any significant similarities of the ARH fold to the catalytic domain of PARG, indicating that the ARH fold is not a useful model for PARG.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…44 The protein ADP ribosylation systems, in addition to the ARTs, also contain ADP ribose glycohydrolases (ARGs) and polyADP ribose glycohydrolases (PARGs; the above-mentioned Macro domain enzymes) that remove the ADP-ribose moieties from targets by hydrolyzing the glycosidic bonds. 25,45,46 In recent years there has been tremendous progress in terms of structural and biochemical understanding of ARTs, PARTs, sirtuins, MACROs and several NAD biosynthesis enzymes. There have also been several efforts in terms of sequence analysis leading to the discovery of novel ART superfamily enzymes 19,32,47 and tremendous interest in the connections between NAD metabolism and the dynamics of heterochromatin formation, especially in the context of organismal aging.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…8, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site; see also Fig. 7) and are encoded by three intronless genes (26). Crystallins maintain the transparency and proper light diffraction in the eye lens across the animal taxa, but unrelated crystallins are found in vertebrates, cephalopods, and jellyfish.…”
Section: Selj Experimental Validationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As reported in ref. 26, the J1A-, J1B-, and J1C-crystallins have completely different promoter regions. Furthermore, the fish promoters do not show sequence similarity to the jellyfish promoter regions.…”
Section: Selj Experimental Validationmentioning
confidence: 99%