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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2016 Jun 01;31011:C911-20. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00029.2016.
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Functional diversification of sea urchin ABCC1 (MRP1) by alternative splicing.

Gökirmak T , Campanale JP , Reitzel AM , Shipp LE , Moy GW , Hamdoun A .


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The multidrug resistance protein (MRP) family encodes a diverse repertoire of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters with multiple roles in development, disease, and homeostasis. Understanding MRP evolution is central to unraveling their roles in these diverse processes. Sea urchins occupy an important phylogenetic position for understanding the evolution of vertebrate proteins and have been an important invertebrate model system for study of ABC transporters. We used phylogenetic analyses to examine the evolution of MRP transporters and functional approaches to identify functional forms of sea urchin MRP1 (also known as SpABCC1). SpABCC1, the only MRP homolog in sea urchins, is co-orthologous to human MRP1, MRP3, and MRP6 (ABCC1, ABCC3, and ABCC6) transporters. However, efflux assays revealed that alternative splicing of exon 22, a region critical for substrate interactions, could diversify functions of sea urchin MRP1. Phylogenetic comparisons also indicate that while MRP1, MRP3, and MRP6 transporters potentially arose from a single transporter in basal deuterostomes, alternative splicing appears to have been the major mode of functional diversification in invertebrates, while duplication may have served a more important role in vertebrates. These results provide a deeper understanding of the evolutionary origins of MRP transporters and the potential mechanisms used to diversify their functions in different groups of animals.

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Genes referenced: abcb6 abcc6 LOC100887844 LOC582726 LOC582918 MSH3

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Annilo, Evolution of the vertebrate ABC gene family: analysis of gene birth and death. 2006, Pubmed