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Assessing horizontal transfer of nifHDK genes in eubacteria: nucleotide sequence of nifK from Frankia strain HFPCcI3 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Hirsch AM; McKhann HI; Reddy A; Liao J; Fang Y; Marshall CR 《Molecular biology and evolution》1995,12(1):16-27
The structural genes for nitrogenase, nifK, nifD, and nifH, are crucial for
nitrogen fixation. Previous phylogenetic analysis of the amino acid
sequence of nifH suggested that this gene had been horizontally transferred
from a proteobacterium to the gram-positive/cyanobacterial clade, although
the confounding effects of paralogous comparisons made interpretation of
the data difficult. An additional test of nif gene horizontal transfer
using nifD was made, but the NifD phylogeny lacked resolution. Here nif
gene phylogeny is addressed with a phylogenetic analysis of a third and
longer nif gene, nifK. As part of the study, the nifK gene of the key taxon
Frankia was sequenced. Parsimony and some distance analyses of the nifK
amino acid sequences provide support for vertical descent of nifK, but
other distance trees provide support for the lateral transfer of the gene.
Bootstrap support was found for both hypotheses in all trees; the nifK data
do not definitively favor one or the other hypothesis. A parsimony analysis
of NifH provides support for horizontal transfer in accord with previous
reports, although bootstrap analysis also shows some support for vertical
descent of the orthologous nifH genes. A wider sampling of taxa and more
sophisticated methods of phylogenetic inference are needed to understand
the evolution of nif genes. The nif genes may also be powerful phylogenetic
tools. If nifK evolved by vertical descent, it provides strong evidence
that the cyanobacteria and proteobacteria are sister groups to the
exclusion of the firmicutes, whereas 16S rRNA sequences are unable to
resolve the relationships of these three major eubacterial lineages.
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Shahid M Khan Chris J Janse Stefan HI Kappe Sebastian A Mikolajczak 《Current opinion in biotechnology》2012,23(6):908-916
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Mohamed A. Nasr Galina I. Dovbeshko Stephen L. Bearne Nagwa El‐Badri Chrif F. Matta 《BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology》2019,41(9)
The mitochondrion is known as the “powerhouse” of eukaryotic cells since it is the main site of adenosine 5′‐triphosphate (ATP) production. Using a temperature‐sensitive fluorescent probe, it has recently been suggested that the stray free energy, not captured into ATP, is potentially sufficient to sustain mitochondrial temperatures higher than the cellular environment, possibly reaching up to 50 °C. By 50 °C, some DNA and mitochondrial proteins may reach their melting temperatures; how then do these biomolecules maintain their structure and function? Further, the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) accelerates with temperature, implying higher oxidative stresses in the mitochondrion than generally appreciated. Herein, it is proposed that mitochondrial heat shock proteins (particularly Hsp70), in addition to their roles in protein transport and folding, protect mitochondrial proteins and DNA from thermal and ROS damage. Other thermoprotectant mechanisms are also discussed. 相似文献