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Regulatory Variation in Functionally Polymorphic Globin Genes of the Bank Vole: A Possible Role for Adaptation
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SYSNO ASEP 0532020 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Regulatory Variation in Functionally Polymorphic Globin Genes of the Bank Vole: A Possible Role for Adaptation Author(s) Dvořáková, Věra (UZFG-Y) RID
Horníková, Michaela (UZFG-Y) ORCID
Němcová, Lucie (UZFG-Y) RID
Marková, Silvia (UZFG-Y) RID, ORCID
Kotlík, Petr (UZFG-Y) RID, ORCIDArticle number 514 Source Title Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. - : Frontiers Research Foundation - ISSN 2296-701X
Roč. 7, JAN 14 (2020)Number of pages 8 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords cysteine ; gene expression ; hemoglobin ; Clethrionomys glareolus ; oxidative stress ; regulatory variation Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour OECD category Ecology R&D Projects GA16-03248S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) EF15_003/0000460 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) EF16_027/0008502 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UZFG-Y - RVO:67985904 UT WOS 000554829500001 EID SCOPUS 85078723032 DOI 10.3389/fevo.2019.00514 Annotation Interaction between gene expression and protein-coding genetic variation is increasingly being appreciated as an important source of adaptive phenotypic variation. In this study, we used reverse transcription-qPCR to test for gene expression variation in two beta-globin paralogs (HBB-T1 and HBB-T2) of the Eurasian bank vole (Myodes glareolus), which both display the same structural polymorphism Ser52Cys responsible for variation in Cys-based antioxidant capacity of red blood cells (RBCs). We first demonstrated that HBB-T1 is the major expressed adult HBB gene in the bank vole accounting for similar to 85% of total hemoglobin. We then measured the relative expression of the two homozygous genotypes in each gene and found that when present in HBB-T1, the oxidative-stress resistant Cys52 allele is significantly associated with higher expression ratio HBB-T1:HBB-T2. The results further indicated that the Cys52 allele present in HBB-T1 was associated with higher normalized expression of that gene compared to the Ser52 allele, although this difference was statistically significant only when using one reference gene but not the other. We argue that, altogether, our results indicate the presence of a cis-acting regulatory genetic variation modulating the expression of the two alleles in HBB-T1. Previous studies indicated that the resistant RBC phenotype is likely beneficial under conditions conducive to oxidative stress. The duplicate HBB genes of the bank vole thus may represent a novel example of gene-regulatory genetic variation interacting with a well-defined protein-coding variation to control an adaptive trait. Workplace Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Contact Jana Zásmětová, knihovna@iapg.cas.cz, Tel.: 315 639 554 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00514/full
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