Evolution of Protein-Mediated Biomineralization in Scleractinian Corals.

ABSTRACT: While recent strides have been made in understanding the biological process by which stony corals calcify, much remains to be revealed, including the ubiquity across taxa of specific biomolecules involved. Several proteins associated with this process have been identified through proteomic profiling of the skeletal organic matrix (SOM) extracted from three scleractinian species. However, the evolutionary history of this putative "biomineralization toolkit," including the appearance of these proteins' throughout metazoan evolution, remains to be resolved. Here we used a phylogenetic approach to examine the evolution of the known scleractinians' SOM proteins across the Metazoa. Our analysis reveals an evolutionary process dominated by the co-option of genes that originated before the cnidari

SUBMITTER: Zaquin T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902050 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature