Molecular and evolutionary analyses of formyl peptide receptors suggest the absence of VNO-specific FPRs in primates

Hui Yang; Peng Shi

doi:10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60094-1

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Dec. 2010

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Molecular and evolutionary analyses of formyl peptide receptors suggest the absence of VNO-specific FPRs in primates

doi: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60094-1

Hui Yang,
Peng Shi

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: shipengsir@gmail.com (Peng Shi)
Received Date: 2010-08-05
Accepted Date: 2010-08-27
Rev Recd Date: 2010-08-26

Available Online: 2010-12-28

Publish Date: 2010-12-20

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Abstract

Formyl peptide receptors (FPRs) were observed to expand in rodents and were recently suggested as candidate vomeronasal chemosensory receptors. Since vomeronasal chemosensory receptors usually underwent positive selection and evolved concordantly with the vomeronasal organ (VNO) morphology, we surveyed FPRs in primates in which VNO morphology is greatly diverse and thus it would provide us a clearer view of VNO-FPRs evolution. By screening available primate genome sequences, we obtained the FPR repertoires in representative primate species. As a result, we did not find FPR family size expansion in primates. Further analyses showed no evolutionary force variance between primates with or without VNO structure, which indicated that there was no functional divergence among primates FPRs. Our results suggest that primates lack the VNO-specific FPRs and the FPR expansion is not a common phenomenon in mammals outside rodent lineage, regardless of VNO complexity.
- formyl peptide receptor,
- vomeronasal chemosensory receptor,
- primates

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