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Molecular evolution of the human Pgk-2 retroposon.The divergence of the Pgk-2 retroposon from Pgk-1 is compared with that of the psi hPgk-1 retroposon from Pgk-1 to reveal nucleotide characteristics diagnostic of functional genes. Paper-6795.
Finally, the hypothesis that the Pgk-2 retroposon initially included a copy of the Pgk-1 'housekeeping' promoter and subsequently evolved a tissue-specific promoter is examined and supported. Paper-6795.
The human phosphoglycerate kinase ( Pgk) gene family includes the functional, intronless Pgk-2 gene and the intronless psi hPgk-1 pseudogene, both of which are retroposons of the intron-containing Pgk-1 gene. Paper-6795.
The hypothesis that codon bias is related to expression level is shown not to hold for the Pgk genes; however, the idea that a deficiency of TA and CG dinucleotides and an excess of TG and CT dinucleotides contributes to codon bias is supported. Paper-6795.
A comparison of the human and mouse Pgk genes indicates that Pgk-2 has evolved more rapidly than Pgk-1 since the two genes diverged early in mammalian evolution, but that the lack of introns in Pgk-2 may have diminished inter-exon variation. Paper-6795.
It is concluded that this process involved the loss of the 5' CpG island present in the Pgk-1 gene, and that selection for cell type-specific expression of Pgk-2 at high levels has driven the divergence of this retroposon from its progenitor, Pgk-1. Paper-6795.
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