The Origin and Evolution of Sex Peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor Interactions

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution..

Post-mating responses play a vital role in successful reproduction across diverse species. In fruit flies, sex peptide binds to the sex peptide receptor, triggering a series of post-mating responses. However, the origin of sex peptide receptor predates the emergence of sex peptide. The evolutionary origins of the interactions between sex peptide and sex peptide receptor and the mechanisms by which they interact remain enigmatic. In this study, we used ancestral sequence reconstruction, AlphaFold2 predictions, and molecular dynamics simulations to study sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions and their origination. Using AlphaFold2 and long-time molecular dynamics simulations, we predicted the structure and dynamics of sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions. We show that sex peptide potentially binds to the ancestral states of Diptera sex peptide receptor. Notably, we found that only a few amino acid changes in sex peptide receptor are sufficient for the formation of sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions. Ancestral sequence reconstruction and molecular dynamics simulations further reveal that sex peptide receptor interacts with sex peptide through residues that are mostly involved in the interaction interface of an ancestral ligand, myoinhibitory peptides. We propose a potential mechanism whereby sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions arise from the preexisting myoinhibitory peptides-sex peptide receptor interface as well as early chance events both inside and outside the preexisting interface that created novel sex peptide-specific sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions. Our findings provide new insights into the origin and evolution of sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions and their relationship with myoinhibitory peptides-sex peptide receptor interactions.

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UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 23;:. - PMID 38013995

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Molecular biology and evolution - 41(2024), 4 vom: 02. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peng, Junhui [VerfasserIn]
Svetec, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Molina, Henrik [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Li [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AlphaFold2
Drosophila Proteins
Journal Article
MIP peptides
Molecular dynamics simulations
Peptides
Receptors, Peptide
Sex peptide
Sex peptide receptor
Sex peptide-sex peptide receptor interactions

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Date Completed 16.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print

UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 23;:. - PMID 38013995

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/molbev/msae065

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370078500