Pervasive survival of expressed mitochondrial rps14 pseudogenes in grasses and their relatives for 80 million years following three functional transfers to the nucleus |
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Authors: | Han Chuan Ong Jeffrey D Palmer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Many mitochondrial genes, especially ribosomal protein genes, have been frequently transferred as functional entities to the
nucleus during plant evolution, often by an RNA-mediated process. A notable case of transfer involves the rps14 gene of three grasses (rice, maize, and wheat), which has been relocated to the intron of the nuclear sdh2 gene and which is expressed and targeted to the mitochondrion via alternative splicing and usage of the sdh2 targeting peptide. Although this transfer occurred at least 50 million years ago, i.e., in a common ancestor of these three
grasses, it is striking that expressed, nearly intact pseudogenes of rps14 are retained in the mitochondrial genomes of both rice and wheat. To determine how ancient this transfer is, the extent to
which mitochondrial rps14 has been retained and is expressed in grasses, and whether other transfers of rps14 have occurred in grasses and their relatives, we investigated the structure, expression, and phylogeny of mitochondrial and
nuclear rps14 genes from 32 additional genera of grasses and from 9 other members of the Poales. |
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