P123

Abstract

The origin of evolutionary novel genes is connected with the origin and evolution of the novel organismal functions and the increase in morphological complexity of multicellular organisms. Novel gene acquire new or altered functions. Here we describe that evolutionary novel genes, expressed predominantly in transgenic fish tumors after their induced regression, determine progressive evolutionary characters and are conserved in human.

We used a sample of genes, which were activated in inducible krasV12 transgenic zebrafish tumors according to the results of RNASeq data. Genes from our sample were expressed after HCC regression upon kras inactivation. The search of orthologs by different tools, such as blastx and psiblast, with e-value cut off not less than 10–3 and query coverage more than 50%, discovered that considerable proportion of tumor-specifically expressed genes are evolutionary novel, i.e. their orthologs are not found in Lamprey. Nine tenths of these novel genes have orthologs in humans. Gene ontology (GO) data were used to analyze their functions. According to the results of GO, some of the genes have functions not characteristic to fish. Among known functions of the human orthologues of evolutionary novel genes of zebrafish (vs. Lamprey) there are some important morphogenetic functions. For example, genes ccdc40, lmx1ba and lepa acquired functions in lung, embryonic utera and placenta, i.e. organs originated in taxa higher than fish. A large proportion of genes from our sample are connected with retina type eye, heart and brain development.