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ces2.2
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nomenclature changes
18SEPT2-23
Xenopus gene and gene symbol has changed from LOC100493994, liver carboxylesterase 2-like to ces2.2, carboxylesterase 2 gene 2
Note: we think the Xenopus ces genes are duplicates, forming a single clade, which is most closely related to the Human CES2 genes, not the CES3 genes as previously thought.
Applying Xenopus nomenclature, we have renamed all CES2 orthologs , with X. tropicalis ces2.1-ces2.8, from left to right, and X. laevis genes ces2.1.L-ces2.5.L from left to right. There are no genes on the X. laevis S subgenome in the v10 genome release that we can find. [CJZ]
synteny and orthology
18SEPT2023=
There are 5 x ces genes in X. laevis on Chr4L and 8 x ces# genes in X. tropicalis on chromosome 4, flanked by wtip and uba2 downstream, and ankar-like, rrad, and cdh16 upstream. There are no ces2 paralogs in the v10 annotation X. laevis S sub genome
Here the order of genes are compared with across species, with new ces2 gene assignment in bold. Note that Human has 3 CES genes, all likely a result of a duplication event, and the goal was to determine which of these genes is the closest ortholog to the frog genes.expansion.
Xtrop chr4: wtip< uba2< (GeneID: 100144981)ces3.1>ces2.1 LOC100493994(ces2-like)>ces2.2 (GeneID:394897)ces5A> ces2.3 (GeneID:779633)ces3.4>ces2.4 LOC116410405>ces2.5 (GeneID:100493652)ces3.5>ces2.6 LOC100493819>ces2.7 (GeneID:100494149)ces3.7>ces2.8 LOC105945786(ankar-like)< rrad> cdh16>
Xlaevis chr4L: wtip.L< uba2.L< LOC108714107(ces5a)>ces2.1.L (GeneID:100381172)ces3.4.L>ces2.2 LOC108713509>ces2.3 LOC108714105(ces5a-like)>ces2.4 LOC108713647(cesE2)>ces2.5 LOC121403150(ankar-like) rrad.L
X.laevis chr4S: wtip.S< uba2.S> rrad.S> pdp2.S ca7.S cyba.S
H.sapiens Chr6: B3GNT9 PHAF1 CBFB RN7SL543P CES4A CES3 LOC107984881(ncRNA) CES2 CIAO2B RRAD CDH16
protein alignment and phylogenetic analysis
18SEPT2023
An alignment and cladogram of all isoforms of the Xenopus ces# proteins was run against all isoforms of the 3 Human CES genes (CES2 CES3 and CES4A, which are all adjacent to each other on CHR6). The results strongly support the hypothesis that the Xenopus clade most closely related to the human CES2 gene, not CES3 (or CES4A) as previously thought.
All Xenopus genes cluster with each other, and not any of the human genes.
proteins accession used in this analysis: NP_001120019.1 XP_004913616.1 NP_001265277.1 NP_001072187.1 XP_031756663.1 XP_031756661.1 XP_002935836.3 XP_002943465.3 XP_018113499.1 XP_018113497.1 XP_018112562.1 XP_041446147.1 XP_041446153.1 NP_001352334.1 NP_001172105.1 NP_001177130.1 XP_031756662.1 XP_004913614.2 XP_041446148.1 NP_001352335.1 NP_001172106.1 NP_001177131.1 XP_031756660.1 XP_041446149.1 NP_001352336.1 NP_079198.2 NP_001305435.1
Furthermore, note that human CES5A does not have any amphibian orthologs recognized by NCBI, and it does not share a conserved syntenic position(s) with Xenopus. Furthermore EBI's EggNogg gene/protein family/homology tree for CES5A indictates that CES5A is a mammal specific gene, thus frog genes should NOT be called ces5A , although several were annotated as ces5a in the v10 genome annotations.
Human CES5A (Gene ID: 221223 ) and mouse Ces5a (geneId: 67935) have been removed from all of these Xenopus ces2gene pages.