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Evolutionary aspects of a unique internal mitochondrial targeting signal in nuclear-migrated rps19 of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)
| Title: | Evolutionary aspects of a unique internal mitochondrial targeting signal in nuclear-migrated rps19 of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) |
| Authors: | Matsunaga, Muneyuki Browse this author | | Takahashi, Yoshiya Browse this author | | Yui-Kurino, Rika Browse this author | | Mikami, Tetsuo Browse this author | | Kubo, Tomohiko Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Keywords: | Plant mitochondria | | Gene migration | | Ribosomal protein | | Mitochondrial targeting | | Mitochondrial gene |
| Issue Date: | 15-Mar-2013 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Journal Title: | GENE |
| Volume: | 517 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page: | 19 |
| End Page: | 26 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1016/j.gene.2012.12.099 |
| PMID: | 23305819 |
| Abstract: | The endosymbiotic theory postulates that many genes migrated from endosymbionts to the nuclear genomes of their hosts. Some migrated genes lack presequences directing proteins to mitochondria, and their mitochondrial targeting signals appear to be inscribed in the core coding regions as internal targeting signals (ITSs). ITSs may have evolved after sequence transfer to nuclei or ITSs may have pre-existed before sequence transfer. Here, we report the molecular cloning of a sugar beet gene for ribosomal protein S19 (Rps19; the first letter is capitalized when the gene is a nuclear gene). We show that sugar beet Rps19 (BvRps19) is an ITS-type gene. Based on amino-acid sequence comparison, dicotyledonous rps19s (the first letter is lower-cased when the gene is a mitochondrial gene), such as tobacco rps19 (Ntrps19), resemble an ancestral form of BvRps19. We investigated whether differences in amino-acid sequences between BvRps19 and Ntrps19 were involved in ITS evolution. Analyses of the intracellular localization of chimaeric GFP-fusion proteins that were transiently expressed in Welsh onion cells showed that Ntrps19-gfp was not localized in mitochondria. When several BvRps19-type amino acid substitutions, none of which was seen in any other angiosperm rps19, were introduced into Ntrps19-gfp, the modified Ntrps19-gfp became localized in mitochondria, supporting the notion that an ITS in BvRps19 evolved following sequence transfer to nuclei. Not all of these substitutions were seen in other ITS-type Rps19s, suggesting that the ITSs of Rps19 are diverse. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111912016587 |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/52656 |
| Appears in Collections: | 農学院・農学研究院 (Graduate School of Agriculture / Faculty of Agriculture) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 久保 友彦
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