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WANG Shanshan, ZHANG Lei, CHI Shan, WANG Guoliang, WANG Xumin, LIU Tao, TANG Xuexi. Phylogenetic analyses of the genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in algae[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(4): 89-101. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1178-4
Citation: WANG Shanshan, ZHANG Lei, CHI Shan, WANG Guoliang, WANG Xumin, LIU Tao, TANG Xuexi. Phylogenetic analyses of the genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in algae[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(4): 89-101. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1178-4
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Phylogenetic analyses of the genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in algae

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1178-4
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    College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China

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    CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information/Beijing Key Laboratory of Genome and Precision Medicine Technologies, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

  • Received Date: 2017-01-17
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  • Carotenoids play a crucial role in absorbing light energy for photosynthesis, as well as in protecting chlorophyll from photodamage. In contrast to the Streptophyta, few studies have examined carotenoid biosynthetic pathways in algae, owing to a shortage of datasets. As part of the 1000 Plants Project, we sequenced and assembled the transcriptomes of 41 marine macroalgal species, including 22 rhodophytes and 19 phaeophytes, and then combined the datasets with publicly available data from GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information) and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute. As a result, we identified 68 and 79 full-length homologs in the Rhodophyta and Phaeophyceae, respectively, of seven inferred carotenoid biosynthetic genes, including the genes for phytoene synthase (PSY), phytoene desaturase (PDS), ζ-carotene desaturase (ZDS), ζ-carotene isomerase (Z-ISO), prolycopene isomerase (crtISO), lycopene β-cyclase (LCYB), and lycopene ε-cyclase (LCYE). We found that the evolutionary history of the algal carotenoid biosynthetic pathway was more complex than that of the same pathway in the Streptophyta and, more specifically, that the evolutionary history involved endosymbiotic gene transfer, gene duplication, and gene loss. Almost all of the eukaryotic algae that we examined had inherited the seven carotenoid biosynthesis genes via endosymbiotic gene transfer. Moreover, PSY, crtISO, and the ancestral lycopene cyclase gene (LCY) underwent duplication events that resulted in multiple gene copies, and the duplication and subsequent divergence of LCYB and LCYE specialized and complicated the cyclization of lycopene. Our findings also verify that the loss of LCYE in both the microphytic rhodophytes and phaeophytes explains the differences in their carotenoid patterns, when compared to the macrophytic rhodophytes. These analyses provide a molecular basis for further biochemical and physiological validation in additional algal species and should help elucidate the origin and evolution of carotenoid biosynthetic pathways.
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