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Mutations in the mitochondrial split gene COXI are preferentially located in exons: a mapping study of 170 mutants
Authors:Pierre Netter  Sylviane Robineau and Claire Lemaire
Institution:(1) Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du CNRS, Laboratoire associé à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Abstract:We have analysed the precise location of a large number (170) of mutations affecting the structural gene for subunit 1 of the cytochrome c oxidase complex. This gene, COXI, is 12.9 kb long and the major part of the sequence (i.e. 11.3 kb) is composed of introns. Several conclusions can be drawn from this study: (1) A significant proportion (84/170) of the mutations cannot be assigned to a single position within the gene by deletion mapping, in spite of clearly being located in it. These mutations are probably large deletions or multiple mutations. (2) Four mutants carry distant double mutations, which have been individually localized. (3) Eighty-two mutants have lesions that are restricted to very short regions of the gene and we therefore conclude that they are most probably due to single hits; amongst these single mutations, 41 are unambiguously located in exons and 28 in introns. This result implies that, at least in this particular split gene, the probability of selection of a mutant phenotype in an exon is, on the average, 13.3 times greater than in an intron, in spite of the existence, within most of these introns, of open reading frames specifying intronic proteins. The evolutionary significance and biological implications of these results are discussed.
Keywords:Yeast  Cytochrome oxidase  Mitochondria  Intronic proteins  Ribozymes
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