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Zhang X, Chen S, Zhao Z, Ma C, Liu Y. Investigation of B-atp6-orfH79 distributing in Chinese populations of Oryza rufipogon and analysis of its chimeric structure. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:81. [PMID: 36750954 PMCID: PMC9903446 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04082-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) of rice is caused by chimeric mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that is maternally inherited in the majority of multicellular organisms. Wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) has been regarded as the ancestral progenitor of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.). To investigate the distribution of original CMS source, and explore the origin of gametophytic CMS gene, a total of 427 individuals with seventeen representative populations of O. rufipogon were collected in from Dongxiang of Jiangxi Province to Sanya of Hainan Province, China, for the PCR amplification of atp6, orfH79 and B-atp6-orfH79, respectively. RESULTS The B-atp6-orfH79 and its variants (B-atp6-GSV) were detected in five among seventeen populations (i.e. HK, GZ, PS, TL and YJ) through PCR amplification, which could be divided into three haplotypes, i.e., BH1, BH2, and BH3. The BH2 haplotype was identical to B-atp6-orfH79, while the BH1 and BH3 were the novel haplotypes of B-atp6-GSV. Combined with the high-homology sequences in GenBank, a total of eighteen haplotypes have been revealed, only with ten haplotypes in orfH79 and its variants (GSV) that belong to three species (i.e. O. rufipogon, Oryza nivara and Oryza sativa). Enough haplotypes clearly demonstrated the uniform structural characteristics of the B-atp6-orfH79 as follows: except for the conserved sequence (671 bp) composed of B-atp6 (619 bp) and the downstream followed the B-atp6 (52 bp, DS), and GSV sequence, a rich variable sequence (VS, 176 bp) lies between the DS and GSV with five insertion or deletion and more than 30 single nucleotide polymorphism. Maximum likelihood analysis showed that eighteen haplotypes formed three clades with high support rate. The hierarchical analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) indicated the occurrence of variation among all populations (FST = 1; P < 0.001), which implied that the chimeric structure occurred independently. Three haplotypes (i.e., H1, H2 and H3) were detected by the primer of orfH79, which were identical to the GVS in B-atp6-GVS structure, respectively. All seventeen haplotypes of the orfH79, belonged to six species based on our results and the existing references. Seven existed single nucleotide polymorphism in GSV section can be translated into eleven various amino acid sequences. CONCLUSIONS Generally, this study, indicating that orfH79 was always accompanied by the B-atp6, not only provide two original CMS sources for rice breeding, but also confirm the uniform structure of B-atp-orfH79, which contribute to revealing the origin of rice gametophytic CMS genes, and the reason about frequent recombination of mitochondrial DNA.
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- Xuemei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
- College of Tobacco, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
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Toriyama K. Molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in rice. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY (TOKYO, JAPAN) 2021; 38:285-295. [PMID: 34782814 PMCID: PMC8562580 DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.21.0607a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a maternally inherited trait that causes dysfunctions in pollen and anther development. CMS is caused by the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. A product of a CMS-causing gene encoded by the mitochondrial genome affects mitochondrial function and the regulation of nuclear genes, leading to male sterility. In contrast, the RESTORER OF FERTILITY gene (Rf gene) in the nuclear genome suppresses the expression of the CMS-causing gene and restores male fertility. An alloplasmic CMS line is often bred as a result of nuclear substitution, which causes the removal of functional Rf genes and allows the expression of a CMS-causing gene in mitochondria. The CMS/Rf system is an excellent model for understanding the genetic interactions and cooperative functions of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in plants, and is also an agronomically important trait for hybrid seed production. In this review article, pollen and anther phenotypes of CMS, CMS-associated mitochondrial genes, Rf genes, and the mechanism that causes pollen abortion and its agronomical application for rice are described.
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- Kinya Toriyama
- Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8572, Japan
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He W, Chen C, Adedze YMN, Dong X, Xi K, Sun Y, Dang T, Jin D. Multicentric origin and diversification of atp6- orf79-like structures reveal mitochondrial gene flows in Oryza rufipogon and Oryza sativa. Evol Appl 2020; 13:2284-2299. [PMID: 33005224 PMCID: PMC7513716 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widely used genetic tool in modern hybrid rice breeding. Most genes conferring rice gametophytic CMS are homologous to orf79 and co-transcribe with atp6. However, the origin, differentiation and flow of these mitochondrial genes in wild and cultivated rice species remain unclear. In this study, we performed de novo assembly of the mitochondrial genomes of 221 common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) and 369 Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) accessions, and identified 16 haplotypes of atp6-orf79-like structures and 11 orf79 alleles. These homologous structures were classified into 4 distinct groups (AO-I, AO-II, AO-III and AO-IV), all of which were observed in O. rufipogon but only AO-I was detected in O. sativa, causing a decrease in the frequency of atp6-orf79-like structures from 19.9% to 8.1%. Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses revealed that the different groups of these gametophytic CMS-related genes in O. rufipogon evolved in a multicentric pattern. The geographical origin of the atp6-orf79-like structures was further traced back, and a candidate region in north-east of Gangetic Plain on the Indian Peninsula (South Asia) was identified as the origin centre of AO-I. The orf79 alleles were detected in all three cytoplasmic types (Or-CT0, Or-CT1 and Or-CT2) of O. rufipogon, but only two alleles (orf79a and orf79b) were observed in Or-CT0 type of O. sativa, while no orf79 allele was found in other types of O. sativa. Our results also revealed that the orf79 alleles in cultivated rice originated from the wild rice population in South and South-East Asia. In addition, strong positive selection pressure was detected on the sequence variations of orf79 alleles, and a special evolutionary strategy was noted in these gametophytic CMS-related genes, suggesting that their divergence could be beneficial to their survival in evolution.
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- Wenchuang He
- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UK
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River College of Plant Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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Tan Y, Xu X, Wang C, Cheng G, Li S, Liu X. Molecular characterization and application of a novel cytoplasmic male sterility-associated mitochondrial sequence in rice. BMC Genet 2015; 16:45. [PMID: 25926037 PMCID: PMC4415283 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0205-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a maternally inherited inability to produce functional pollen found in numerous flowering plant species. CMS is associated with mitochondrial DNA mutation, novel chimeric open reading frames (ORFs), and rearrangement of coding and noncoding regions of the mitochondrial genome. Results BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis indicated that L-sp1, a new sequence-characterized amplified region, is non-homologous to atp6-orfH79 (or atp6-orf79) and WA352 cloned CMS-associated genes. L-sp1 was found in 11 of 102 wild rice accessions belonging to four AA genome species: Oryza rufipogon, Oryza nivara, Oryza glumaepatula, and Oryza meridionalis. Using L-sp1, two new CMS lines were developed, from either low natural fertility plants or sterile plants, by backcrossing BC1F1 with Yuetai B. Northern blot and RT-PCR revealed that L-sp1 was only expressed in the anthers of w1/YTB, w2/YTB, w1/YTB//YTB, and w2/YTB//YTB when in the same cytoplasm background. Conclusions L-sp1 is a single-copy chimeric CMS-associated gene found in the mitochondrial genome. It can be expressed in anthers with the same specific cytoplasm background, and will be a useful molecular marker for the development and marker-assisted selection of new CMS lines. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0205-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Yanping Tan
- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- Key Laboratory of MOE for Plant Developmental Biology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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Hu J, Huang W, Huang Q, Qin X, Dan Z, Yao G, Zhu R, Zhu Y. The mechanism of ORFH79 suppression with the artificial restorer fertility gene Mt-GRP162. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 199:52-58. [PMID: 23647140 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The restoration fertility complex (RFC) was previously identified in Honglian (HL)-cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) rice (Oryza sativa), and glycine-rich protein 162 (GRP162) is responsible for binding to the CMS-associated transcript atp6-orfH79. Here, we engineered a recombinant GRP162 containing the mitochondrial transit peptide, termed Mt-GRP162, as an artificial restorer of fertility (Rf) gene. Mt-GRP162 was confirmed to bind to CMS-associated RNA and to localize to the mitochondria. The transgenic plants showed restored fertility with partially functional pollen. We found that the expression of ORFH79 decreased in transgenic plants, while the expression of atp6-orfH79 was not changed. These findings indicate that Mt-GRP162 restores fertility by suppressing the expression of the cytotoxic protein ORFH79 at the post-transcriptional level rather than via the cleavage of atp6-orfH79 in the presence of RFC. These findings contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms of restoration through diverse pathways.
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- Jun Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Engineering Research Center for Plant Biotechnology and Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Fujii S, Yamada M, Fujita M, Itabashi E, Hamada K, Yano K, Kurata N, Toriyama K. Cytoplasmic-nuclear genomic barriers in rice pollen development revealed by comparison of global gene expression profiles among five independent cytoplasmic male sterile lines. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 51:610-20. [PMID: 20203238 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is one of the most ideal phenomena known in higher plants to describe the incompatibilities between mitochondrial-nuclear genomic interactions. To elucidate the dependency of pollen development on mitochondrial genotypes and cytoplasmic-nuclear genomic barriers, we employed five CMS isogenic lines of rice, CW-, W11-, LD-, BT- and WA-type CMS lines, that exhibit distinct pollen-defective phenotypes, and we characterized the CMS phenotypes and the nuclear gene expression patterns in conjunction with their mitochondrial genomic structures. These five CMS lines carried independent mitotypes, and W11, LD and BT mitochondrial genomes were relatively close with respect to their phylogeny. In anthers at the uninucleate microspore and bicellular pollen stages, 8,199 genes significantly changed their expression in at least one of the CMS lines. Common expression patterns were observed in BT, LD and W11 after k-means clustering. Among the genes encoding putative mitochondrial proteins, ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE 1A, a gene for the well-known mitochondrial stress marker, was included in the group ectopically up-regulated in anthers at the bicellular pollen stage of BT, LD and W11. Several other clusters were also regulated in a cytoplasm-specific manner during pollen development. These clear similarities in gene regulatory networks of BT-, LD- and W11-CMS lines indicate that the phylogenetic relationships of the mitochondrial genotypes are strongly correlated with nuclear gene expression patterns and pollen abortion phenotypes, providing evidence of the mitochondrial epistacy over the nuclear genome during pollen development.
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- Sota Fujii
- Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 981-8555 Japan
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Woloszynska M. Heteroplasmy and stoichiometric complexity of plant mitochondrial genomes--though this be madness, yet there's method in't. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2010; 61:657-71. [PMID: 19995826 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Mitochondrial heteroplasmy is defined as the coexistence of divergent mitochondrial genotypes in a cell. The ratio of the alternative genomes may be variable, but in plants, the usually prevalent main genome is accompanied by sublimons--substoichiometric mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules. Plant mitochondrial heteroplasmy was originally viewed as being associated with pathological mutations or was found in non-natural plant populations. Currently, it is considered to be a common situation in plants. Recent years have changed the previous view on the role of homologous recombination, small-scale mutations, and paternal leakage of mtDNA in the generation of heteroplasmy. Newly developed sensitive techniques have allowed the precise estimation of mtDNA stoichiometry. Mechanisms of maintenance and transmission of heteroplasmic genomes, including DNA recombination and replication, as well as mitochondrial fusion and fission, have been studied. This review describes the high level of plant mitochondrial genome complication--the 'madness' resulting from the heteroplasmic state and explains the method hidden in this madness. Heteroplasmy is described as the evolutionary strategy of uniparentally inherited plant mitochondrial genomes which do not undergo sexual recombination. In order to compensate for this deficiency, alternative types of mtDNA are substoichiometrically accumulated as a reservoir of genetic variability and may undergo accelerated evolution. Occasionally, sublimons are selected and amplified in the process called substoichiometric shifting, to take over the role of the main genome. Alternative mitochondrial genomes may recombine, yielding new mtDNA variants, or segregate during plant growth resulting in plants with mosaic phenotypes. Two opposite roles of mitochondrial heteroplasmy with respect to acceleration or counteracting of mutation accumulation are also discussed. Finally, nuclear control of heteroplasmy and substoichiometric shifting is described.
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- Magdalena Woloszynska
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Duroc Y, Hiard S, Vrielynck N, Ragu S, Budar F. The Ogura sterility-inducing protein forms a large complex without interfering with the oxidative phosphorylation components in rapeseed mitochondria. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 70:123-37. [PMID: 19199092 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-009-9461-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2008] [Accepted: 01/19/2009] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility causing protein, ORF138, was found to be part of a complex with an apparent size of over 750 kDa in the inner membrane of mitochondria of sterile plants. ORF138 did not colocalize with any of the oxidative phosphorylation complexes, nor did its presence modify their apparent size or amount, compared to samples from fertile isogenic plants. We attempted to detect potential proteins or nucleic acids that could be involved in the large ORF138 complex by 2D PAGE, immunoprecipitation and nuclease treatments of native extracts. All our results suggest that the ORF138 protein is the main, if not only, component of this large complex. The capacities of complexes I, II, IV, and ATP synthase were identical in samples from sterile and fertile plants. Isolated mitochondria from sterile plants showed a higher oxygen consumption than those from fertile plants. In vivo respiration measurements suggest that the difference in O(2) consumption measured at the organelle level is compensated at the cell/tissue level, completely in leaves, but only partially in male reproductive organs.
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- Yann Duroc
- Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA UR254, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026, Versailles cedex, France
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