Presequence acquisition during secondary endocytobiosis and the possible role of introns

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作者
Kilian, O [1 ]
Kroth, PG [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Konstanz, Fachbereich Biol, D-78457 Constance, Germany
关键词
chloroplast; diatom; endocytobiosis; intron; presequence; targeting;
D O I
10.1007/s00239-004-2593-z
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Targeting of nucleus-encoded proteins into chloroplasts is mediated by N-terminal presequences. During evolution of plastids from formerly free-living cyanobacteria by endocytobiosis, genes for most plastid proteins have been transferred from the plastid genome to the nucleus and subsequently had to be equipped with such plastid targeting sequences. So far it is unclear how the gene domains coding for presequences and the respective mature proteins may have been assembled. While land plant plastids are supposed to originate from a primary endocytobiosis event (a prokaryotic cyanobacterium was taken up by a eukaryotic cell), organisms with secondary plastids like diatoms experienced a second endocytobiosis step involving a eukaryotic alga taken up by a eukaryotic host cell. In this group of algae, apparently most genes encoding chloroplast proteins have been transferred a second time (from the nucleus of the endosymbiont to the nucleus of the secondary host) and thus must have been equipped with additional targeting signals. We have analyzed cDNAs and the respective genomic DNA fragments of seven plastid preproteins from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. In all of these genes we found single spliceosomal introns, generally located within the region coding for the N-terminal plastid targeting sequences or shortly downstream of it. The positions of the introns can be related to the putative phylogenetic histories of the respective genes, indicating that the bipartite targeting sequences in these secondary algae might: have evolved by recombination events via introns.
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