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Xiao F, Zhao Y, Wang X, Jian X. Characterization of the chloroplast genome of Gleditsia species and comparative analysis. Sci Rep 2024; 14:4262. [PMID: 38383559 PMCID: PMC10881578 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54608-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
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The genus Gleditsia has significant medicinal and economic value, but information about the chloroplast genomic characteristics of Gleditsia species has been limited. Using the Illumina sequencing, we assembled and annotated the whole chloroplast genomes of seven Gleditsia species (Gleditsia sinensis, Gleditsia japonica var. delavayi (G. delavayi), G. fera, G. japonica, G. microphylla, Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis (Zhū Yá Zào), G. microphylla mutant). The assembled genomes revealed that Gleditsia species have a typical circular tetrad structure, with genome sizes ranging from 162,746 to 170,907 bp. Comparative genomic analysis showed that most (65.8-75.8%) of the abundant simple sequence repeats in Gleditsia and Gymnocladus species were located in the large single copy region. The Gleditsia chloroplast genome prefer T/A-ending codons and avoid C/G-ending codons, positive selection was acting on the rpoA, rpl20, atpB, ndhA and ycf4 genes, most of the chloroplast genes of Gleditsia species underwent purifying selection. Expansion and contraction of the inverted repeat (IR)/single copy (SC) region showed similar patterns within the Gleditsia genus. Polymorphism analysis revealed that coding regions were more conserved than non-coding regions, and the IR region was more conserved than the SC region. Mutational hotspots were mostly found in intergenic regions such as "rps16-trnQ", "trnT-trnL", "ndhG-ndhI", and "rpl32-trnL" in Gleditsia. Phylogenetic analysis showed that G. fera is most closely related to G. sinensis,G. japonica and G. delavayi are relatively closely related. Zhū Yá Zào can be considered a bud mutation of the G. sinensis. The albino phenotype of G. microphylla mutant is not caused by variations in the chloroplast genome, and that the occurrence of the albino phenotype may be due to mutations in chloroplast-related genes involved in splicing or localization functions. This study will help us enhance our exploration of the genetic evolution and geographical origins of the Gleditsia genus.
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- Feng Xiao
- Institute for Forest Resources and Environment of Guizhou, Key Laboratory of Forest Cultivation in Plateau Mountain of Guizhou Province, College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
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- Institute for Forest Resources and Environment of Guizhou, Key Laboratory of Forest Cultivation in Plateau Mountain of Guizhou Province, College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China.
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- Institute for Forest Resources and Environment of Guizhou, Key Laboratory of Forest Cultivation in Plateau Mountain of Guizhou Province, College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
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- College of Continuing Education, Yanbian University, Yanji, 133002, Jilin, China
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Huang KY, Kan SL, Shen TT, Gong P, Feng YY, Du H, Zhao YP, Wan T, Wang XQ, Ran JH. A Comprehensive Evolutionary Study of Chloroplast RNA Editing in Gymnosperms: A Novel Type of G-to-A RNA Editing Is Common in Gymnosperms. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810844. [PMID: 36142757 PMCID: PMC9505161 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Although more than 9100 plant plastomes have been sequenced, RNA editing sites of the whole plastome have been experimentally verified in only approximately 21 species, which seriously hampers the comprehensive evolutionary study of chloroplast RNA editing. We investigated the evolutionary pattern of chloroplast RNA editing sites in 19 species from all 13 families of gymnosperms based on a combination of genomic and transcriptomic data. We found that the chloroplast C-to-U RNA editing sites of gymnosperms shared many common characteristics with those of other land plants, but also exhibited many unique characteristics. In contrast to that noted in angiosperms, the density of RNA editing sites in ndh genes was not the highest in the sampled gymnosperms, and both loss and gain events at editing sites occurred frequently during the evolution of gymnosperms. In addition, GC content and plastomic size were positively correlated with the number of chloroplast RNA editing sites in gymnosperms, suggesting that the increase in GC content could provide more materials for RNA editing and facilitate the evolution of RNA editing in land plants or vice versa. Interestingly, novel G-to-A RNA editing events were commonly found in all sampled gymnosperm species, and G-to-A RNA editing exhibits many different characteristics from C-to-U RNA editing in gymnosperms. This study revealed a comprehensive evolutionary scenario for chloroplast RNA editing sites in gymnosperms, and reported that a novel type of G-to-A RNA editing is prevalent in gymnosperms.
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- Kai-Yuan Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- School of Earth Sciences, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Laboratory of Systematic & Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Koo HJ, Yang TJ. RNA editing may stabilize membrane-embedded proteins by increasing phydrophobicity: A study of Zanthoxylum piperitum and Z. schinifolium chloroplast NdhG. Gene 2020; 746:144638. [PMID: 32244054 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.144638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Most chloroplast genes in Zanthoxylum schinifolium (Korean pepper) and Z. piperitum (Japanese pepper) are subject to neutral or purifying selection (Ka/Ks values < 1); however, NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subunit G (ndhG) has a Ka/Ks value of 1.43, which may indicate positive selection. Here, we modeled the ZsNdhG and ZpNdhG structures by comparing them with the NuoJ subunit of respiratory complex I in Escherichia coli, revealing the locations of four amino acid differences between ZsNdhG and ZpNdhG. As these polymorphisms were located at the end of a membrane-spanning α-helix or in peptide loops external to the membrane, they are not expected to have major effects on the membrane-embedding properties of these proteins. However, we found that C-to-U RNA editing occurred at the ndhG-50 sites of ndhG (uCa to uUa, Ser to Leu) in both species, resulting in changes to an amino acid located in the middle of a membrane-spanning α-helix, which may maintain its hydrophobicity. RNA editing at the ndhG-50 site was conserved in many plant species, and the modeled structures of Anthoceros formosae NdhG and Spirodela polyrhiza NdhB provided further evidence that RNA editing increases the hydrophobicity of membrane-embedded proteins. We also speculate that the polar residues inside membrane-spanning α-helices serve to support the protein structure. This report represents the first RNA-editing site identified in Zanthoxylum and points to the importance of considering RNA editing when identifying positively selected genes based on Ka/Ks values.
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- Hyun Jo Koo
- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Lv J, Shang L, Chen Y, Han Y, Yang X, Xie S, Bai W, Hu M, Wu H, Lei K, Yang Y, Ge S, Trinh HP, Zhang Y, Guo L, Wang Z. OsSLC1 Encodes a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Essential for Early Chloroplast Development and Seedling Survival. RICE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020; 13:25. [PMID: 32297039 PMCID: PMC7160225 DOI: 10.1186/s12284-020-00385-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND The large family of pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins is widely distributed among land plants. Such proteins play vital roles in intron splicing, RNA editing, RNA processing, RNA stability and RNA translation. However, only a small number of PPR genes have been identified in rice. RESULTS In this study, we raised a mutant from tissue-culture-derived plants of Oryza sativa subsp. japonica 'Zhonghua 11', which exhibited a lethal chlorosis phenotype from germination to the third-leaf stage. The mutant was designated seedling-lethal chlorosis 1 (slc1). The slc1 mutant leaves showed extremely low contents of photosynthetic pigments and abnormal chloroplast development, and were severely defective in photosynthesis. Map-based cloning of OsSLC1 revealed that a single base (G) deletion was detected in the first exon of Os06g0710800 in the slc1 mutant, which caused a premature stop codon. Knockout and complementation experiments further confirmed that OsSLC1 is responsible for the seedling-lethal chlorosis phenotype in the slc1 mutant. OsSLC1 was preferentially expressed in green leaves, and encoded a chloroplast-localized PPR protein harboring 12 PPR motifs. Loss-of-function of OsSLC1 affected the intron splicing of multiple group II introns, and especially precluded the intron splicing of rps16, and resulted in significant increase in the transcript levels of 3 chloroplast ribosomal RNAs and 16 chloroplast development-related and photosynthesis-related genes, and in significant reduction in the transcript levels of 1 chloroplast ribosomal RNAs and 2 chloroplast development-related and photosynthesis-related genes. CONCLUSION We characterized a novel chloroplast-localized PPR protein, OsSLC1, which plays a vital role in the intron splicing of multiple group II introns, especially the rps16 intron, and is essential for early chloroplast development and seedling survival in rice.
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- Jun Lv
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715 China
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- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518124 China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, Research Center for Perennial Rice Engineering and Technology in Yunnan, School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
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- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518124 China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715 China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715 China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, Research Center for Perennial Rice Engineering and Technology in Yunnan, School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Zhejiang, 310006 China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Adversity Agriculture Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, 401329 China
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Zhejiang, 310006 China
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Postel Z, Touzet P. Cytonuclear Genetic Incompatibilities in Plant Speciation. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9040487. [PMID: 32290056 PMCID: PMC7238192 DOI: 10.3390/plants9040487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Revised: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Due to the endosymbiotic origin of organelles, a pattern of coevolution and coadaptation between organellar and nuclear genomes is required for proper cell function. In this review, we focus on the impact of cytonuclear interaction on the reproductive isolation of plant species. We give examples of cases where species exhibit barriers to reproduction which involve plastid-nuclear or mito-nuclear genetic incompatibilities, and describe the evolutionary processes at play. We also discuss potential mechanisms of hybrid fitness recovery such as paternal leakage. Finally, we point out the possible interplay between plant mating systems and cytonuclear coevolution, and its consequence on plant speciation.
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Sakulsathaporn A, Wonnapinij P, Suttangkakul A, Apisitwanich S, Vuttipongchaikij S. RNA editing in the chloroplast of Asian Palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer). Genet Mol Biol 2020; 42:e20180371. [PMID: 31968044 PMCID: PMC7206934 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We have identified 46 RNA editing sites located in 20 chloroplast (cp) genes of Borassus flabellifer (Asian Palmyra palm), family Arecaceae, and tested these genes for supporting phylogenetic study among the commelinids. Among the 46 sites, 43 sites were found to cause amino acid alterations, which were predicted to increase the hydrophobicity and transmembrane regions of the proteins, and one site was to cause a premature stop codon. Analysis of these editing sites with data obtained from seed plants showed that a number of shared-editing sites depend on the evolutionary relationship between plants. We reconstructed a deep phylogenetic relationship among the commelinids using seven RNA edited genes that are orthologous among monocots. This tree could represent the relationship among subfamilies of Arecaceae family, but was insufficient to represent the relationship among the orders of the commelinid. After adding eight gene sequences with high parsimony-informative characters (PICs), the tree topology was improved and could support the topology for the commelinid orders ((Arecales,Dasypogenaceae) (Zingiberales+Commelinales,Poales)). The result provides support for inherent RNA editing along the evolution of seed plants, and we provide an alternative set of loci for the phylogenetic tree reconstruction of Arecaceae's subfamilies.
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- Arpakorn Sakulsathaporn
- Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, Kasetsart University,
Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Nakhon Pathom 73140, Thailand
- Center of Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology:
(AG-BIO/PERDO-CHE), Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- School of Natural Resource and Environmental Management,
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Nong Khai
Campus, Nong Khai 43000, Thailand
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart
University, 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Center of Advanced studies for Tropical Natural Resources,
Kasetsart University, Ngam Wong Wan, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Omics Center for Agriculture, Bioresources, Food and Health,
Kasetsart University (OmiKU), 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900,
Thailand
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart
University, 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Center of Advanced studies for Tropical Natural Resources,
Kasetsart University, Ngam Wong Wan, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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- Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, Kasetsart University,
Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Nakhon Pathom 73140, Thailand
- Center of Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology:
(AG-BIO/PERDO-CHE), Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart
University, 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Center of Advanced studies for Tropical Natural Resources,
Kasetsart University, Ngam Wong Wan, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart
University, 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Center of Advanced studies for Tropical Natural Resources,
Kasetsart University, Ngam Wong Wan, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Omics Center for Agriculture, Bioresources, Food and Health,
Kasetsart University (OmiKU), 50 Ngarm Wong Wan road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900,
Thailand
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Wang Y, Liu XY, Yang YZ, Huang J, Sun F, Lin J, Gu ZQ, Sayyed A, Xu C, Tan BC. Empty Pericarp21 encodes a novel PPR-DYW protein that is required for mitochondrial RNA editing at multiple sites, complexes I and V biogenesis, and seed development in maize. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008305. [PMID: 31374076 PMCID: PMC6693784 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
C-to-U editing is an important event in post-transcriptional RNA processing, which converts a specific cytidine (C)-to-uridine (U) in transcripts of mitochondria and plastids. Typically, the pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein, which specifies the target C residue by binding to its upstream sequence, is involved in the editing of one or a few sites. Here we report a novel PPR-DYW protein EMP21 that is associated with editing of 81 sites in maize. EMP21 is localized in mitochondria and loss of the EMP21 function severely inhibits the embryogenesis and endosperm development in maize. From a scan of 35 mitochondrial transcripts produced by the Emp21 loss-of-function mutant, the C-to-U editing was found to be abolished at five sites (nad7-77, atp1-1292, atp8-437, nad3-275 and rps4-870), while reduced at 76 sites in 21 transcripts. In most cases, the failure to editing resulted in the translation of an incorrect residue. In consequence, the mutant became deficient with respect to the assembly and activity of mitochondrial complexes I and V. As six of the decreased editing sites in emp21 overlap with the affected editing sites in emp5-1, and the editing efficiency at rpl16-458 showed a substantial reduction in the emp21-1 emp5-4 double mutant compared with the emp21-1 and emp5-4 single mutants, we explored their interaction. A yeast two hybrid assay suggested that EMP21 does not interact with EMP5, but both EMP21 and EMP5 interact with ZmMORF8. Together, these results indicate that EMP21 is a novel PPR-DYW protein required for the editing of ~17% of mitochondrial target Cs, and the editing process may involve an interaction between EMP21 and ZmMORF8 (and probably other proteins).
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- Yong Wang
- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Rodrigues NF, Fonseca GCD, Kulcheski FR, Margis R. Salt stress affects mRNA editing in soybean chloroplasts. Genet Mol Biol 2017; 40:200-208. [PMID: 28257523 PMCID: PMC5452132 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2016-0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Soybean, a crop known by its economic and nutritional importance, has been the
subject of several studies that assess the impact and the effective plant responses
to abiotic stresses. Salt stress is one of the main environmental stresses and
negatively impacts crop growth and yield. In this work, the RNA editing process in
the chloroplast of soybean plants was evaluated in response to a salt stress.
Bioinformatics approach using sRNA and mRNA libraries were employed to detect
specific sites showing differences in editing efficiency. RT-qPCR was used to measure
editing efficiency at selected sites. We observed that transcripts of
NDHA, NDHB, RPS14 and
RPS16 genes presented differences in coverage and editing rates
between control and salt-treated libraries. RT-qPCR assays demonstrated an increase
in editing efficiency of selected genes. The salt stress enhanced the RNA editing
process in transcripts, indicating responses to components of the electron transfer
chain, photosystem and translation complexes. These increases can be a response to
keep the homeostasis of chloroplast protein functions in response to salt stress.
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- Nureyev F Rodrigues
- Departamento de Genética, PPGBM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, PPGBM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Departamento de Biofísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Identification and Analysis of RNA Editing Sites in the Chloroplast Transcripts of Aegilops tauschii L. Genes (Basel) 2016; 8:genes8010013. [PMID: 28042823 PMCID: PMC5295008 DOI: 10.3390/genes8010013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2016] [Revised: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
RNA editing is an important way to convert cytidine (C) to uridine (U) at specific sites within RNA molecules at a post-transcriptional level in the chloroplasts of higher plants. Although it has been systematically studied in many plants, little is known about RNA editing in the wheat D genome donor Aegilops tauschii L. Here, we investigated the chloroplast RNA editing of Ae. tauschii and compared it with other wheat relatives to trace the evolution of wheat. Through bioinformatics prediction, a total of 34 C-to-U editing sites were identified, 17 of which were validated using RT-PCR product sequencing. Furthermore, 60 sites were found by the RNA-Seq read mapping approach, 24 of which agreed with the prediction and six were validated experimentally. The editing sites were biased toward tCn or nCa trinucleotides and 5′-pyrimidines, which were consistent with the flanking bases of editing sites of other seed plants. Furthermore, the editing events could result in the alteration of the secondary structures and topologies of the corresponding proteins, suggesting that RNA editing might impact the function of target genes. Finally, comparative analysis found some evolutionarily conserved editing sites in wheat and two species-specific sites were also obtained. This study is the first to report on RNA editing in Aegilops tauschii L, which not only sheds light on the evolution of wheat from the point of view of RNA editing, but also lays a foundation for further studies to identify the mechanisms of C-to-U alterations.
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Moreira S, Valach M, Aoulad-Aissa M, Otto C, Burger G. Novel modes of RNA editing in mitochondria. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:4907-19. [PMID: 27001515 PMCID: PMC4889940 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Gene structure and expression in diplonemid mitochondria are unparalleled. Genes are fragmented in pieces (modules) that are separately transcribed, followed by the joining of module transcripts to contiguous RNAs. Some instances of unique uridine insertion RNA editing at module boundaries were noted, but the extent and potential occurrence of other editing types remained unknown. Comparative analysis of deep transcriptome and genome data from Diplonema papillatum mitochondria reveals ∼220 post-transcriptional insertions of uridines, but no insertions of other nucleotides nor deletions. In addition, we detect in total 114 substitutions of cytosine by uridine and adenosine by inosine, amassed into unusually compact clusters. Inosines in transcripts were confirmed experimentally. This is the first report of adenosine-to-inosine editing of mRNAs and ribosomal RNAs in mitochondria. In mRNAs, editing causes mostly amino-acid additions and non-synonymous substitutions; in ribosomal RNAs, it permits formation of canonical secondary structures. Two extensively edited transcripts were compared across four diplonemids. The pattern of uridine-insertion editing is strictly conserved, whereas substitution editing has diverged dramatically, but still rendering diplonemid proteins more similar to other eukaryotic orthologs. We posit that RNA editing not only compensates but also sustains, or even accelerates, ultra-rapid evolution of genome structure and sequence in diplonemid mitochondria.
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- Sandrine Moreira
- Department of Biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics; Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics; Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics; Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, D-04109, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics; Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3C 3J7, Canada
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Kaila T, Chaduvla PK, Saxena S, Bahadur K, Gahukar SJ, Chaudhury A, Sharma TR, Singh NK, Gaikwad K. Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Pigeonpea ( Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh) and Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars: Genome Organization and Comparison with Other Legumes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1847. [PMID: 28018385 PMCID: PMC5145887 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh), a diploid (2n = 22) legume crop with a genome size of 852 Mbp, serves as an important source of human dietary protein especially in South East Asian and African regions. In this study, the draft chloroplast genomes of Cajanus cajan and Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars were generated. Cajanus scarabaeoides is an important species of the Cajanus gene pool and has also been used for developing promising CMS system by different groups. A male sterile genotype harboring the C. scarabaeoides cytoplasm was used for sequencing the plastid genome. The cp genome of C. cajan is 152,242bp long, having a quadripartite structure with LSC of 83,455 bp and SSC of 17,871 bp separated by IRs of 25,398 bp. Similarly, the cp genome of C. scarabaeoides is 152,201bp long, having a quadripartite structure in which IRs of 25,402 bp length separates 83,423 bp of LSC and 17,854 bp of SSC. The pigeonpea cp genome contains 116 unique genes, including 30 tRNA, 4 rRNA, 78 predicted protein coding genes and 5 pseudogenes. A 50 kb inversion was observed in the LSC region of pigeonpea cp genome, consistent with other legumes. Comparison of cp genome with other legumes revealed the contraction of IR boundaries due to the absence of rps19 gene in the IR region. Chloroplast SSRs were mined and a total of 280 and 292 cpSSRs were identified in C. scarabaeoides and C. cajan respectively. RNA editing was observed at 37 sites in both C. scarabaeoides and C. cajan, with maximum occurrence in the ndh genes. The pigeonpea cp genome sequence would be beneficial in providing informative molecular markers which can be utilized for genetic diversity analysis and aid in understanding the plant systematics studies among major grain legumes.
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- Tanvi Kaila
- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
- Department of Bio & Nanotechnology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & TechnologyHisar, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
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- Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Centre, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi VidyapeethAkola, India
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- Department of Bio & Nanotechnology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & TechnologyHisar, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant BiotechnologyNew Delhi, India
- *Correspondence: Kishor Gaikwad
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Ross TG, Barrett CF, Soto Gomez M, Lam VK, Henriquez CL, Les DH, Davis JI, Cuenca A, Petersen G, Seberg O, Thadeo M, Givnish TJ, Conran J, Stevenson DW, Graham SW. Plastid phylogenomics and molecular evolution of Alismatales. Cladistics 2015; 32:160-178. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- T. Gregory Ross
- Department of Botany 6270 University Boulevard University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research 6804 Marine Drive SW University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences 5151 State University Dr. California State University Los Angeles CA 90032‐8201 USA
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- Department of Botany 6270 University Boulevard University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research 6804 Marine Drive SW University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Botany 6270 University Boulevard University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research 6804 Marine Drive SW University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Evolution, Ecology & Population Biology Division of Biology Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive St. Louis MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269‐3043 USA
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- L. H. Bailey Hortorium and Section of Plant Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK‐1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK‐1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK‐1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity & Sprigg Geobiology Centre School of Biological Sciences Benham Bldg DX 650 312 The University of Adelaide Adelaide SA 5005 Australia
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- Department of Botany 6270 University Boulevard University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
- UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research 6804 Marine Drive SW University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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Lin CP, Ko CY, Kuo CI, Liu MS, Schafleitner R, Chen LFO. Transcriptional Slippage and RNA Editing Increase the Diversity of Transcripts in Chloroplasts: Insight from Deep Sequencing of Vigna radiata Genome and Transcriptome. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0129396. [PMID: 26076132 PMCID: PMC4468118 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We performed deep sequencing of the nuclear and organellar genomes of three mungbean genotypes: Vigna radiata ssp. sublobata TC1966, V. radiata var. radiata NM92 and the recombinant inbred line RIL59 derived from a cross between TC1966 and NM92. Moreover, we performed deep sequencing of the RIL59 transcriptome to investigate transcript variability. The mungbean chloroplast genome has a quadripartite structure including a pair of inverted repeats separated by two single copy regions. A total of 213 simple sequence repeats were identified in the chloroplast genomes of NM92 and RIL59; 78 single nucleotide variants and nine indels were discovered in comparing the chloroplast genomes of TC1966 and NM92. Analysis of the mungbean chloroplast transcriptome revealed mRNAs that were affected by transcriptional slippage and RNA editing. Transcriptional slippage frequency was positively correlated with the length of simple sequence repeats of the mungbean chloroplast genome (R2=0.9911). In total, 41 C-to-U editing sites were found in 23 chloroplast genes and in one intergenic spacer. No editing site that swapped U to C was found. A combination of bioinformatics and experimental methods revealed that the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase-transcribed genes psbF and ndhA are affected by transcriptional slippage in mungbean and in main lineages of land plants, including three dicots (Glycine max, Brassica rapa, and Nicotiana tabacum), two monocots (Oryza sativa and Zea mays), two gymnosperms (Pinus taeda and Ginkgo biloba) and one moss (Physcomitrella patens). Transcript analysis of the rps2 gene showed that transcriptional slippage could affect transcripts at single sequence repeat regions with poly-A runs. It showed that transcriptional slippage together with incomplete RNA editing may cause sequence diversity of transcripts in chloroplasts of land plants.
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- Ching-Ping Lin
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
- Department of Earth and Life Science, University of Taipei, Taipei 10048, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Petersen G, Seberg O, Cuenca A, Stevenson DW, Thadeo M, Davis JI, Graham S, Ross TG. Phylogeny of the Alismatales (Monocotyledons) and the relationship ofAcorus(Acorales?). Cladistics 2015; 32:141-159. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Gitte Petersen
- Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK-1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK-1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Sølvgade 83 Opg. S DK-1307 Copenhagen Denmark
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- L. H. Bailey Hortorium and Section of Plant Biology; Cornell University; Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Botany; University of British Columbia; Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Botany; University of British Columbia; Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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Lenz H, Knoop V. PREPACT 2.0: Predicting C-to-U and U-to-C RNA Editing in Organelle Genome Sequences with Multiple References and Curated RNA Editing Annotation. Bioinform Biol Insights 2013; 7:1-19. [PMID: 23362369 PMCID: PMC3547502 DOI: 10.4137/bbi.s11059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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RNA editing is vast in some genetic systems, with up to thousands of targeted C-to-U and U-to-C substitutions in mitochondria and chloroplasts of certain plants. Efficient prognoses of RNA editing in organelle genomes will help to reveal overlooked cases of editing. We present PREPACT 2.0 (http://www.prepact.de) with numerous enhancements of our previously developed Plant RNA Editing Prediction & Analysis Computer Tool. Reference organelle transcriptomes for editing prediction have been extended and reorganized to include 19 curated mitochondrial and 13 chloroplast genomes, now allowing to distinguish RNA editing sites from “pre-edited” sites. Queries may be run against multiple references and a new “commons” function identifies and highlights orthologous candidate editing sites congruently predicted by multiple references. Enhancements to the BLASTX mode in PREPACT 2.0 allow querying of complete novel organelle genomes within a few minutes, identifying protein genes and candidate RNA editing sites simultaneously without prior user analyses.
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- Henning Lenz
- Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Petersen G, Seberg O, Davis JI. Phylogeny of the Liliales (Monocotyledons) with special emphasis on data partition congruence and RNA editing. Cladistics 2012; 29:274-295. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00427.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Nuclear DYW-type PPR gene families diversify with increasing RNA editing frequencies in liverwort and moss mitochondria. J Mol Evol 2012; 74:37-51. [PMID: 22302222 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-012-9486-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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RNA editing in mitochondria and chloroplasts of land plants alters transcript sequences by site-specific conversions of cytidines into uridines. RNA editing frequencies vary extremely between land plant clades, ranging from zero in some liverworts to more than 2,000 sites in lycophytes. Unique pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins with variable domain extension (E/E+/DYW) have recently been identified as specific editing site recognition factors in model plants. The distinctive functions of these PPR protein domain additions have remained unclear, although deaminase function has been proposed for the DYW domain. To shed light on diversity of RNA editing and DYW proteins at the origin of land plant evolution, we investigated editing patterns of the mitochondrial nad5, nad4, and nad2 genes in a wide sampling of more than 100 liverworts and mosses using the recently developed PREPACT program (www.prepact.de) and exemplarily confirmed predicted RNA editing sites in selected taxa. Extreme variability in RNA editing frequency is seen both in liverworts and mosses. Only few editings exist in the liverwort Lejeunea cavifolia or the moss Pogonatum urnigerum whereas up to 20% of cytidines are edited in the liverwort Haplomitrium mnioides or the moss Takakia lepidozioides. Interestingly, the latter are taxa that branch very early within their respective clades. Amplicons targeting the E/E+/DYW domains and subsequent random clone sequencing show DYW domains among bryophytes to be highly conserved in comparison with their angiosperm counterparts and to correlate well with RNA editing frequencies regarding their diversities. We propose that DYW proteins are the key players of RNA editing at the origin of land plants.
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Jiang Y, Fan SL, Song MZ, Yu JN, Yu SX. Identification of RNA editing sites in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) chloroplasts and editing events that affect secondary and three-dimensional protein structures. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH 2012; 11:987-1001. [PMID: 22576925 DOI: 10.4238/2012.april.19.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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RNA editing can alter individual nucleotides in primary transcripts, which can cause the amino acids encoded by edited RNA to deviate from the ones predicted from the DNA template. We investigated RNA editing sites of protein-coding genes from the chloroplast genome of cotton. Fifty-four editing sites were identified in 27 transcripts, which is the highest editing frequency found until now in angiosperms. All these editing sites were C-to-U conversion, biased toward ndh genes and U_A context. Examining published editotypes in various angiosperms, we found that RNA editing mostly converts amino acid from hydrophilic to hydrophobic and restores evolutionary conserved amino acids. Using bioinformatics to analyze the effect of editing events on protein secondary and three-dimensional structures, we found that 21 editing sites can affect protein secondary structures and seven editing sites can alter three-dimensional protein structures. These results imply that 24 editing sites in cotton chloroplast transcripts may play an important role in their protein structures and functions.
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- Y Jiang
- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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Cardi T, Giegé P, Kahlau S, Scotti N. Expression Profiling of Organellar Genes. ADVANCES IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2920-9_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Chen H, Deng L, Jiang Y, Lu P, Yu J. RNA editing sites exist in protein-coding genes in the chloroplast genome of Cycas taitungensis. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 53:961-70. [PMID: 22044752 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2011.01082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process that results in modifications of ribonucleotides at specific locations. In land plants editing can occur in both mitochondria and chloroplasts and most commonly involves C-to-U changes, especially in seed plants. Using prediction and experimental determination, we investigated RNA editing in 40 protein-coding genes from the chloroplast genome of Cycas taitungensis. A total of 85 editing sites were identified in 25 transcripts. Comparison analysis of the published editotypes of these 25 transcripts in eight species showed that RNA editing events gradually disappear during plant evolution. The editing in the first and third codon position disappeared quicker than that in the second codon position. ndh genes have the highest editing frequency while serine and proline codons were more frequently edited than the codons of other amino acids. These results imply that retained RNA editing sites have imbalanced distribution in genes and most of them may function by changing protein structure or interaction. Mitochondrion protein-coding genes have three times the editing sites compared with chloroplast genes of Cycas, most likely due to slower evolution speed.
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- Haiyan Chen
- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
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Castandet B, Araya A. RNA editing in plant organelles. Why make it easy? BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2011; 76:924-31. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297911080086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Knoop V. When you can't trust the DNA: RNA editing changes transcript sequences. Cell Mol Life Sci 2011; 68:567-86. [PMID: 20938709 PMCID: PMC11114842 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0538-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2010] [Revised: 09/13/2010] [Accepted: 09/23/2010] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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RNA editing describes targeted sequence alterations in RNAs so that the transcript sequences differ from their DNA template. Since the original discovery of RNA editing in trypanosomes nearly 25 years ago more than a dozen such processes of nucleotide insertions, deletions, and exchanges have been identified in evolutionarily widely separated groups of the living world including plants, animals, fungi, protists, bacteria, and viruses. In many cases gene expression in mitochondria is affected, but RNA editing also takes place in chloroplasts and in nucleocytosolic genetic environments. While some RNA editing systems largely seem to repair defect genes (cryptogenes), others have obvious functions in modulating gene activities. The present review aims for an overview on the current states of research in the different systems of RNA editing by following a historic timeline along the respective original discoveries.
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- Volker Knoop
- Abteilung Molekulare Evolution, Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Bonn, Germany.
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Magee AM, Aspinall S, Rice DW, Cusack BP, Sémon M, Perry AS, Stefanović S, Milbourne D, Barth S, Palmer JD, Gray JC, Kavanagh TA, Wolfe KH. Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes. Genome Res 2010; 20:1700-10. [PMID: 20978141 DOI: 10.1101/gr.111955.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Point mutations result from errors made during DNA replication or repair, so they are usually expected to be homogeneous across all regions of a genome. However, we have found a region of chloroplast DNA in plants related to sweetpea (Lathyrus) whose local point mutation rate is at least 20 times higher than elsewhere in the same molecule. There are very few precedents for such heterogeneity in any genome, and we suspect that the hypermutable region may be subject to an unusual process such as repeated DNA breakage and repair. The region is 1.5 kb long and coincides with a gene, ycf4, whose rate of evolution has increased dramatically. The product of ycf4, a photosystem I assembly protein, is more divergent within the single genus Lathyrus than between cyanobacteria and other angiosperms. Moreover, ycf4 has been lost from the chloroplast genome in Lathyrus odoratus and separately in three other groups of legumes. Each of the four consecutive genes ycf4-psaI-accD-rps16 has been lost in at least one member of the legume "inverted repeat loss" clade, despite the rarity of chloroplast gene losses in angiosperms. We established that accD has relocated to the nucleus in Trifolium species, but were unable to find nuclear copies of ycf4 or psaI in Lathyrus. Our results suggest that, as well as accelerating sequence evolution, localized hypermutation has contributed to the phenomenon of gene loss or relocation to the nucleus.
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- Alan M Magee
- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Okuda K, Hammani K, Tanz SK, Peng L, Fukao Y, Myouga F, Motohashi R, Shinozaki K, Small I, Shikanai T. The pentatricopeptide repeat protein OTP82 is required for RNA editing of plastid ndhB and ndhG transcripts. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 61:339-49. [PMID: 19845878 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.04059.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Several hundred nucleus-encoded factors are required for regulating gene expression in plant organelles. Among them, the most numerous are the members of the pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein family. We found that PPR protein OTP82 is essential for RNA editing of the ndhB-9 and ndhG-1 sites within transcripts encoding subunits of chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase. Despite the defects in RNA editing, otp82 did not show any phenotypes in NDH activity, stability or interaction with photosystem I, suggesting that the RNA editing events mediated by OTP82 are functionally silent even though they induce amino acid alterations. In agreement with this result, both sites are partially edited even in the wild type, implying the possibility that a single gene produces heterogeneous proteins that are functionally equivalent. Although only five nucleotides separate the ndhB-8 and ndhB-9 sites, the ndhB-8 site is normally edited in otp82 mutants, suggesting that both sites are recognized by different PPR proteins. OTP82 falls into the DYW subclass containing conserved C-terminal E and DYW motifs. As in CRR22 and CRR28, the DYW motif present in OTP82 is not essential for RNA editing in vivo.
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- Kenji Okuda
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Tangphatsornruang S, Sangsrakru D, Chanprasert J, Uthaipaisanwong P, Yoocha T, Jomchai N, Tragoonrung S. The chloroplast genome sequence of mungbean (Vigna radiata) determined by high-throughput pyrosequencing: structural organization and phylogenetic relationships. DNA Res 2009; 17:11-22. [PMID: 20007682 PMCID: PMC2818187 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsp025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Mungbean is an economically important crop which is grown principally for its protein-rich dry seeds. However, genomic research of mungbean has lagged behind other species in the Fabaceae family. Here, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of mungbean obtained by the 454 pyrosequencing technology. The mungbean cp genome is 151 271 bp in length which includes a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 26 474 bp separated by a small single-copy region of 17 427 bp and a large single-copy region of 80 896 bp. The genome contains 108 unique genes and 19 of these genes are duplicated in the IR. Of these, 75 are predicted protein-coding genes, 4 ribosomal RNA genes and 29 tRNA genes. Relative to other plant cp genomes, we observed two distinct rearrangements: a 50-kb inversion between accD/rps16 and rbcL/trnK-UUU, and a 78-kb rearrangement between trnH/rpl14 and rps19/rps8. We detected sequence length polymorphism in the cp homopolymeric regions at the intra- and inter-specific levels in the Vigna species. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a close relationship between Vigna and Phaseolus in the phaseolinae subtribe and provided a strong support for a monophyletic group of the eurosid I.
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- S Tangphatsornruang
- Genome Institute, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathumthani, Thailand.
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Tillich M, Sy VL, Schulerowitz K, von Haeseler A, Maier UG, Schmitz-Linneweber C. Loss of matK RNA editing in seed plant chloroplasts. BMC Evol Biol 2009; 9:201. [PMID: 19678945 PMCID: PMC2744683 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2009] [Accepted: 08/13/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background RNA editing in chloroplasts of angiosperms proceeds by C-to-U conversions at specific sites. Nuclear-encoded factors are required for the recognition of cis-elements located immediately upstream of editing sites. The ensemble of editing sites in a chloroplast genome differs widely between species, and editing sites are thought to evolve rapidly. However, large-scale analyses of the evolution of individual editing sites have not yet been undertaken. Results Here, we analyzed the evolution of two chloroplast editing sites, matK-2 and matK-3, for which DNA sequences from thousands of angiosperm species are available. Both sites are found in most major taxa, including deep-branching families such as the nymphaeaceae. However, 36 isolated taxa scattered across the entire tree lack a C at one of the two matK editing sites. Tests of several exemplary species from this in silico analysis of matK processing unexpectedly revealed that one of the two sites remain unedited in almost half of all species examined. A comparison of sequences between editors and non-editors showed that specific nucleotides co-evolve with the C at the matK editing sites, suggesting that these nucleotides are critical for editing-site recognition. Conclusion (i) Both matK editing sites were present in the common ancestor of all angiosperms and have been independently lost multiple times during angiosperm evolution. (ii) The editing activities corresponding to matK-2 and matK-3 are unstable. (iii) A small number of third-codon positions in the vicinity of editing sites are selectively constrained independent of the presence of the editing site, most likely because of interacting RNA-binding proteins.
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- Michael Tillich
- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Molekulare Genetik, Berlin D-10115, Germany.
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Du P, Jia L, Li Y. CURE-Chloroplast: a chloroplast C-to-U RNA editing predictor for seed plants. BMC Bioinformatics 2009; 10:135. [PMID: 19422723 PMCID: PMC2688514 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2008] [Accepted: 05/08/2009] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND RNA editing is a type of post-transcriptional modification of RNA and belongs to the class of mechanisms that contribute to the complexity of transcriptomes. C-to-U RNA editing is commonly observed in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts. The in vivo mechanism of recognizing C-to-U RNA editing sites is still unknown. In recent years, many efforts have been made to computationally predict C-to-U RNA editing sites in the mitochondria of seed plants, but there is still no algorithm available for C-to-U RNA editing site prediction in the chloroplasts of seed plants. RESULTS In this paper, we extend our algorithm CURE, which can accurately predict the C-to-U RNA editing sites in mitochondria, to predict C-to-U RNA editing sites in the chloroplasts of seed plants. The algorithm achieves over 80% sensitivity and over 99% specificity. We implement the algorithm as an online service called CURE-Chloroplast http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/pure. CONCLUSION CURE-Chloroplast is an online service for predicting the C-to-U RNA editing sites in the chloroplasts of seed plants. The online service allows the processing of entire chloroplast genome sequences. Since CURE-Chloroplast performs very well, it could be a helpful tool in the study of C-to-U RNA editing in the chloroplasts of seed plants.
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- Pufeng Du
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Div. TNLIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Div. TNLIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Div. TNLIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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Diekmann K, Hodkinson TR, Wolfe KH, van den Bekerom R, Dix PJ, Barth S. Complete chloroplast genome sequence of a major allogamous forage species, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). DNA Res 2009; 16:165-76. [PMID: 19414502 PMCID: PMC2695775 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsp008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Lolium perenne L. (perennial ryegrass) is globally one of the most important forage and grassland crops. We sequenced the chloroplast (cp) genome of Lolium perenne cultivar Cashel. The L. perenne cp genome is 135 282 bp with a typical quadripartite structure. It contains genes for 76 unique proteins, 30 tRNAs and four rRNAs. As in other grasses, the genes accD, ycf1 and ycf2 are absent. The genome is of average size within its subfamily Pooideae and of medium size within the Poaceae. Genome size differences are mainly due to length variations in non-coding regions. However, considerable length differences of 1–27 codons in comparison of L. perenne to other Poaceae and 1–68 codons among all Poaceae were also detected. Within the cp genome of this outcrossing cultivar, 10 insertion/deletion polymorphisms and 40 single nucleotide polymorphisms were detected. Two of the polymorphisms involve tiny inversions within hairpin structures. By comparing the genome sequence with RT–PCR products of transcripts for 33 genes, 31 mRNA editing sites were identified, five of them unique to Lolium. The cp genome sequence of L. perenne is available under Accession number AM777385 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Center for Biotechnology Information and DNA DataBank of Japan.
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Guzowska-Nowowiejska M, Fiedorowicz E, Plader W. Cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and squash: are rules of editing in flowering plants chloroplast genes so well known indeed? Gene 2009; 434:1-8. [PMID: 19162145 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2008] [Revised: 11/21/2008] [Accepted: 12/16/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The similarities and differences in the chloroplast genes editing patterns of four species from one family (and two genera), which is the first-ever attempt at comparison of such data in closely related species, is discussed. The effective use of the chloroplast genes editing patterns in evolutionary studies, especially in evaluating the kinship between closely related species, is thereby proved. The results indicate that differences in editing patterns between different genera (Cucumis and Cucurbita) exist, and some novel editing sites can be identified even now. However, surprising is the fact of finding editing in the codon for Arg (in flowering plants detected before only in Cuscuta reflexa chloroplast genome, Funk et al.,[Funk H.T., Berg S., Krupinska K., Maier U.G. and Krause K., 2007. Complete DNA sequences of the plastid genomes of two parasitic flowering plants species, Cuscuta reflexa and Cuscuta gronovi. BMC Plant Biol. 7:45, doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-7-45.]), which was believed to have been lost during evolution before the emergence of angiosperms. In addition, the existence of silent editing in plant chloroplasts has been confirmed, and some probable reasons for its presence are pointed out herein.
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- Magdalena Guzowska-Nowowiejska
- Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, The Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, Warsaw, Poland
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RNA editing: only eleven sites are present in the Physcomitrella patens mitochondrial transcriptome and a universal nomenclature proposal. Mol Genet Genomics 2009; 281:473-81. [PMID: 19169711 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-009-0424-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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RNA editing in mitochondria and chloroplasts of land plants alters the coding content of transcripts through site-specific exchanges of cytidines into uridines and vice versa. The abundance of RNA editing in model plant species such as rice or Arabidopsis with some 500 affected sites in their organelle transcripts hinders straightforward approaches to elucidate its mechanisms. The moss Physcomitrella patens is increasingly being appreciated as an alternative plant model system, enhanced by the recent availability of its complete chloroplast, mitochondrial, and nuclear genome sequences. We here report the transcriptomic analysis of Physcomitrella mitochondrial mRNAs as a prerequisite for future studies of mitochondrial RNA editing in this moss. We find a strikingly low frequency of RNA editing affecting only eleven, albeit highly important, sites of C-to-U nucleotide modification in only nine mitochondrial genes. Partial editing was seen for two of these sites but no evidence for any silent editing sites (leaving the identity of the encoded amino acid unchanged) as commonly observed in vascular plants was found in Physcomitrella, indicating a compact and efficient organization of the editing machinery. Furthermore, we here wish to propose a unifying nomenclature to clearly identify and designate RNA editing positions and to facilitate future communication and database annotation.
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Yura K, Miyata Y, Arikawa T, Higuchi M, Sugita M. Characteristics and prediction of RNA editing sites in transcripts of the Moss Takakia lepidozioides chloroplast. DNA Res 2008; 15:309-21. [PMID: 18650260 PMCID: PMC2575889 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsn016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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RNA editing in land plant organelles is a process primarily involving the conversion of cytidine to uridine in pre-mRNAs. The process is required for gene expression in plant organelles, because this conversion alters the encoded amino acid residues and improves the sequence identity to homologous proteins. A recent study uncovered that proteins encoded in the nuclear genome are essential for editing site recognition in chloroplasts; the mechanisms by which this recognition occurs remain unclear. To understand these mechanisms, we determined the genomic and cDNA sequences of moss Takakia lepidozioides chloroplast genes, then computationally analyzed the sequences within −30 to +10 nucleotides of RNA editing sites (neighbor sequences) likely to be recognized by trans-factors. As the T. lepidozioides chloroplast has many RNA editing sites, the analysis of these sequences provides a unique opportunity to perform statistical analyses of chloroplast RNA editing sites. We divided the 302 obtained neighbor sequences into eight groups based on sequence similarity to identify group-specific patterns. The patterns were then applied to predict novel RNA editing sites in T. lepidozioides transcripts; ∼60% of these predicted sites are true editing sites. The success of this prediction algorithm suggests that the obtained patterns are indicative of key sites recognized by trans-factors around editing sites of T. lepidozioides chloroplast genes.
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- Kei Yura
- Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan.
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Heller WP, Hayes ML, Hanson MR. Cross-competition in editing of chloroplast RNA transcripts in vitro implicates sharing of trans-factors between different C targets. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:7314-9. [PMID: 18192271 PMCID: PMC2276328 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m709595200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Revised: 01/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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C-->U plant organellar RNA editing is required for the translation of evolutionarily conserved and functional proteins. 28 different C targets of RNA editing have been identified in maize chloroplasts, and hundreds of Cs are edited in mitochondria. Mutant analysis in Arabidopsis has indicated that absence of a single site-specific recognition protein can result in loss of editing of a single C target, raising the possibility that each C target requires a recognition protein. Here we show that transcripts encompassing two editing sites, ZMrpoB C467 and ZMrps14 C80, can compete editing activity from each other in vitro despite limited sequence similarity. The signal causing competition overlaps a 5'-cis element required for editing efficiency. A single five-nucleotide mutation spanning the region from -20 to -16 relative to the edited C of rpoB C467 is sufficient to eliminate its substrate editing as well as its ability to compete editing activity from rps14 C80 substrates. A corresponding mutation in an rps14 C80 competitor likewise eliminated its ability to compete editing activity from rpoB C467 substrates. Taken together, our results indicate that the RNA sequences mediating both editing efficiency and cross-competition are highly similar and that a common protein is involved in their editing. Sharing of trans-factors can facilitate editing of the large number of different C targets in plant organelles so that a different protein factor would not be required for every editing site.
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- Wade P Heller
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Chateigner-Boutin AL, Small I. A rapid high-throughput method for the detection and quantification of RNA editing based on high-resolution melting of amplicons. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:e114. [PMID: 17726051 PMCID: PMC2034463 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We describe a rapid, high-throughput method to scan for new RNA editing sites. This method is adapted from high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis of amplicons, a technique used in clinical research to detect mutations in genomes. The assay was validated by the discovery of six new editing sites in different chloroplast transcripts of Arabidopsis thaliana. A screen of a collection of mutants uncovered a mutant defective for editing of one of the newly discovered sites. We successfully adapted the technique to quantify editing of partially edited sites in different individuals or different tissues. This new method will be easily applicable to RNA from any organism and should greatly accelerate the study of the role of RNA editing in physiological processes as diverse as plant development or human health.
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Zeng WH, Liao SC, Chang CC. Identification of RNA Editing Sites in Chloroplast Transcripts of Phalaenopsis aphrodite and Comparative Analysis with Those of Other Seed Plants. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 48:362-8. [PMID: 17169923 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcl058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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RNA editing sites were systematically examined for the transcripts of 74 known protein-coding genes in the chloroplasts of Phalaenopsis aphrodite. A total of 44 editing sites were identified in 24 transcripts, the highest reported in seed plants. In addition, 21 editing sites are unique to the Phalaenopsis orchid as compared with other seed plants. All editing is C-to-U conversion, and 42 editing sites bring about the changes in amino acids. One of the remaining two editing sites occurs in the transcripts of the ndhB pseudogene, and another in the 5'-untranslated region of psbH transcripts.
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- Wun-Hong Zeng
- Institute of Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Hayes ML, Hanson MR. Identification of a sequence motif critical for editing of a tobacco chloroplast transcript. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 13:281-8. [PMID: 17158709 PMCID: PMC1781371 DOI: 10.1261/rna.295607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2006] [Accepted: 10/23/2006] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Nucleotides are specifically and efficiently targeted for modification from C to U within transcripts of chloroplasts in higher plants. Although the enzymatic apparatus responsible for altering C to U has not been identified, the sequences surrounding editing sites are known to contain information essential for efficient editing. We set out to determine the nucleotides that are critical for editing of a particular C, NTpsbE C214, in chloroplast transcripts in tobacco. Assay of editing of substrates with different lengths of 5' and 3' sequence around the target C was carried out to delimit the region of sequence critical for editing in vitro. Mutated substrates were then constructed with an altered nucleotide at each position within the previously defined region around NTpsbE C214. In individual nucleotides, both 5' and 3' of the edited nucleotide were found to be important for editing. The sequence GCCGUU, which occurs 5' of the editing site, was discovered to be critical for editing. Editing substrates mutated to alter the distance between the GCCGUU sequence and NTpsbE C214 resulted in the generation of a new editing target, the 3' adjacent nucleotide. These data are consistent with a model in which the selection of the C target for editing is determined by its distance from a crucial 5' sequence.
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- Michael L Hayes
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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In this chapter we provide an overview of cytosine-to-uridine (C-to-U) RNA editing in the plastids of higher plants. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role plastid transformation played in understanding the editing process. We discuss how plastid transformation enabled identification of mRNA cis elements for editing and gave the first insight into the role of editing trans factors. The introduction will be followed by a protocol for plastid transformation, including vector design employed to identify editing cis elements. We also discuss how to test RNA editing in vivo by cDNA sequencing. At the end, we summarize the status of the field and outline future directions.
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- Kerry A Lutz
- Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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Sasaki T, Yukawa Y, Wakasugi T, Yamada K, Sugiura M. A simple in vitro RNA editing assay for chloroplast transcripts using fluorescent dideoxynucleotides: distinct types of sequence elements required for editing of ndh transcripts. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 47:802-10. [PMID: 16856984 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02825.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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RNA editing is found in various transcripts from land plant chloroplasts. In tobacco chloroplasts, C-to-U conversion occurs at 36 specific sites including two sites identified in this work. Our RNA editing assay system using chloroplast extracts facilitated biochemical analyses of editing reactions but required mRNAs labeled with (32)P at specific sites. Here, we have improved the in vitro system using fluorescence-labeled chain terminators, ddGTP and ddATP, and have measured the editing activity at 19 sites in ndh transcripts. Editing activities varied from site to site. It has been reported that one editing site in ndhA mRNAs is present in spinach but absent in tobacco, but a corresponding editing capacity had been found in vivo in tobacco using biolistic transformation. We confirmed biochemically the existence of this activity in tobacco extracts. Using the non-radioactive assay, we examined sequences essential for editing within a 50-nt mRNA region encompassing an editing site. Editing of the ndhB-2 site requires a short sequence in front of the editing site, while that of the ndhF mRNA requires two separate regions, a sequence surrounding the editing site and a 5' distal sequence. These results suggest that distinct editing mechanisms are present in chloroplasts.
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- Tadamasa Sasaki
- Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata, Mizuho, Nagoya 467-8501, Japan
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Tillich M, Poltnigg P, Kushnir S, Schmitz-Linneweber C. Maintenance of plastid RNA editing activities independently of their target sites. EMBO Rep 2006; 7:308-13. [PMID: 16415790 PMCID: PMC1456890 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2005] [Revised: 11/22/2005] [Accepted: 11/30/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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RNA editing in plant organelles is mediated by site-specific, nuclear-encoded factors. Previous data suggested that the maintenance of these factors depends on the presence of their rapidly evolving cognate sites. The surprising ability of allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) to edit a foreign site in the chloroplast ndhA messenger RNA was thought to be inherited from its diploid male ancestor, Nicotiana tomentosiformis. Here, we show that the same ndhA editing activity is also present in Nicotiana sylvestris, which is the female diploid progenitor of tobacco and which lacks the ndhA site. Hence, heterologous editing is not simply a result of tobacco's allopolyploid genome organization. Analyses of other editing sites after sexual or somatic transfer between land plants showed that heterologous editing occurs at a surprisingly high frequency. This suggests that the corresponding editing activities are conserved despite the absence of their target sites, potentially because they serve other functions in the plant cell.
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- Michael Tillich
- Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Cell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University/Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Technology Park 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Tillich M, Funk HT, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Poltnigg P, Sabater B, Martin M, Maier RM. Editing of plastid RNA in Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 43:708-15. [PMID: 16115067 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02484.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Post-transcriptional maturation of plastid-encoded mRNAs from land plants includes editing by making cytidine to uridine alterations at highly specific positions; this usually restores codon identities for conserved amino acids that are important for the proper function of the affected proteins. In contrast to the rather constant number of editing sites their location varies greatly, even between closely related taxa. Here, we experimentally determined the specific pattern of editing sites (the editotype) of the plastid genome of Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia (Col-0). Based on phylogenetic analyses of plastid open reading frames, we identified 28 editing sites. Two editing events in the genes matK and ndhB seem to have evolved late during the evolution of flowering plants. Strikingly, they are embedded in almost identical sequence elements and seem to be phylogenetically co-processed. This suggests that the two sites are recognized by the same trans-factor, which could help to explain the hitherto enigmatic gain of editing sites in evolution. In order to trace variations in editotype at the subspecies level we examined two other A. thaliana accessions, Cape Verde Islands (Cvi-0) and Wassilewskija (Ws-2), for the Col-0 editing sites. Both Cvi-0 and Ws-2 possess and process the whole set of editing sites as determined in Col-0, but the consequences of RNA editing differ at one position between the ecotypes.
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- Michael Tillich
- Department für Biologie I der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bereich Botanik, Menzingerstr. 67, 80638 München, Germany.
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