TY  - GEN
T1  - The Joubert syndrome protein CEP41 is excluded from the distal segment of cilia in C. elegans
AU  - Cevik, Sebiha
AU  - Kaplan, Oktay I.
DO  - 10.17912/micropub.biology.000406
UR  - http://beta.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000406/
AB  - We report the identification of C. elegans F42G8.19 as the ortholog of human CEP41. This conclusion was based on database searches, reciprocal BLAST analysis, and cilia-specific localization. To look for the orthologous gene of human CEP41 in C. elegans, we used three databases: the model organism Alliance of Genome Resources (https://www.alliancegenome.org/, Release 3.2.0), OrthoList 2 (http://ortholist.shaye-lab.org/, Release 2017), and ConVarT (https://convart.org/, Release 2020) (Kim et. al., 2018; Pir et. al., 2021). On the Alliance of Genome Resources and ConVarT, we discovered that C. elegans F42G8.19 is the ortholog of human CEP41. To validate this conclusion, we ran a manual reciprocal BLAST analysis (the Reciprocal Best Hits BLAST (RBHB)). The protein-protein BLAST (BLASTp) search of human CEP41 protein sequence (NP 061188.1) revealed F42G8.19 as the top C. elegans hit (Altschul et. al., 1990). In the following step, the protein sequence from the best hit C. elegans F42G8.19 (NP_001294206.1) was compared to human proteins, with human CEP41 emerging as the best match. C. elegans F42G8.19 encodes a 182-amino-acid protein that is shorter than the 373-amino-acid human CEP41 protein (Figure 1A). We subsequently performed the amino acid alignments of human CEP41 (169–373 amino acid) and C. elegans F42G8.19 (1–182 amino acid), which revealed over 24 % identity to each other (Figure 1A). We eventually determined whether C. elegans F42G8.19 has a rhodanese domain as human CEP41 (169-266 aa), and our query showed that C. elegans F42G8.19 has a rhodanese domain (30-121 aa) (Figure 1A) (Lee et. al., 2012). Taken together, our analysis revealed that C. elegans F42G8.19 is orthologous to human CEP41, and C. elegans F42G8.19 was therefore assigned CEPH-41 (CEntrosomal Protein Homolog 41).
PY  - 2021
JO  - microPublication Biology
ER  -