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Li J, Chen Y, Liu Y, Wang C, Li L, Chao Y. Complete mitochondrial genome of Agrostis stolonifera: insights into structure, Codon usage, repeats, and RNA editing. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:466. [PMID: 37596544 PMCID: PMC10439588 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09573-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Plants possess mitochondrial genomes that are large and complex compared to animals. Despite their size, plant mitochondrial genomes do not contain significantly more genes than their animal counterparts. Studies into the sequence and structure of plant mitochondrial genomes heavily imply that the main mechanism driving replication of plant mtDNA, and offer valuable insights into plant evolution, energy production, and environmental adaptation. RESULTS This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of Agrostis stolonifera's mitochondrial genome, characterized by a branched structure comprising three contiguous chromosomes, totaling 560,800 bp with a GC content of 44.07%. Annotations reveal 33 unique protein-coding genes (PCGs), 19 tRNA genes, and 3 rRNA genes. The predominant codons for alanine and glutamine are GCU and CAA, respectively, while cysteine and phenylalanine exhibit weaker codon usage biases. The mitogenome contains 73, 34, and 23 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) on chromosomes 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Chromosome 1 exhibits the most frequent A-repeat monomeric SSR, whereas chromosome 2 displays the most common U-repeat monomeric SSR. DNA transformation analysis identifies 48 homologous fragments between the mitogenome and chloroplast genome, representing 3.41% of the mitogenome's total length. The PREP suite detects 460 C-U RNA editing events across 33 mitochondrial PCGs, with the highest count in the ccmFn gene and the lowest in the rps7 gene. Phylogenetic analysis confirms A. stolonifera's placement within the Pooideae subfamily, showing a close relationship to Lolium perenne, consistent with the APG IV classification system. Numerous homologous co-linear blocks are observed in A. stolonifera's mitogenomes and those of related species, while certain regions lack homology. CONCLUSIONS The unique features and complexities of the A. stolonifera mitochondrial genome, along with its similarities and differences to related species, provide valuable insights into plant evolution, energy production, and environmental adaptation. The findings from this study significantly contribute to the growing body of knowledge on plant mitochondrial genomes and their role in plant biology.
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- Jiaxing Li
- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6001, Australia
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- Inner Mongolia M-Grass Ecology And Environment (Group) Co., Ltd, Hohhot, 010010, China
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- Mentougou District Bureau of Ecological and Environment of Beijing Municipality, Beijing, 102300, China
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- Mentougou District Bureau of Ecological and Environment of Beijing Municipality, Beijing, 102300, China
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- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Stone JD, Koloušková P, Sloan DB, Štorchová H. Non-coding RNA may be associated with cytoplasmic male sterility in Silene vulgaris. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:1599-1612. [PMID: 28369520 PMCID: PMC5444436 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widespread phenomenon in flowering plants caused by mitochondrial (mt) genes. CMS genes typically encode novel proteins that interfere with mt functions and can be silenced by nuclear fertility-restorer genes. Although the molecular basis of CMS is well established in a number of crop systems, our understanding of it in natural populations is far more limited. To identify CMS genes in a gynodioecious plant, Silene vulgaris, we constructed mt transcriptomes and compared transcript levels and RNA editing patterns in floral bud tissue from female and hermaphrodite full siblings. The transcriptomes from female and hermaphrodite individuals were very similar overall with respect to variation in levels of transcript abundance across the genome, the extent of RNA editing, and the order in which RNA editing and intron splicing events occurred. We found only a single genomic region that was highly overexpressed and differentially edited in females relative to hermaphrodites. This region is not located near any other transcribed elements and lacks an open-reading frame (ORF) of even moderate size. To our knowledge, this transcript would represent the first non-coding mt RNA associated with CMS in plants and is, therefore, an important target for future functional validation studies.
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- James D Stone
- Institute of Experimental Botany v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, Prague, 16502 Czech Republic
- Institute of Botany v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Central Bohemia, 25243 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, Prague, 16502Czech Republic
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- Colorado State University, Department of Biology, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rozvojová 263, Prague, 16502Czech Republic
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Yurina NP, Odintsova MS. Mitochondrial Genome Structure of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2017; 81:101-13. [PMID: 27260390 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297916020048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Current ideas of plant mitochondrial genome organization are presented. Data on the size and structural organization of mtDNA, gene content, and peculiarities are summarized. Special emphasis is given to characteristic features of the mitochondrial genomes of land plants and photosynthetic algae that distinguish them from the mitochondrial genomes of other eukaryotes. The data published before the end of 2014 are reviewed.
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- N P Yurina
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
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Del Valle-Echevarria AR, Kiełkowska A, Bartoszewski G, Havey MJ. The Mosaic Mutants of Cucumber: A Method to Produce Knock-Downs of Mitochondrial Transcripts. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2015; 5:1211-21. [PMID: 25873637 PMCID: PMC4478549 DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.017053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cytoplasmic effects on plant performance are well-documented and result from the intimate interaction between organellar and nuclear gene products. In plants, deletions, mutations, or chimerism of mitochondrial genes are often associated with deleterious phenotypes, as well as economically important traits such as cytoplasmic male sterility used to produce hybrid seed. Presently, genetic analyses of mitochondrial function and nuclear interactions are limited because there is no method to efficiently produce mitochondrial mutants. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) possesses unique attributes useful for organellar genetics, including differential transmission of the three plant genomes (maternal for plastid, paternal for mitochondrial, and bi-parental for nuclear), a relatively large mitochondrial DNA in which recombination among repetitive motifs produces rearrangements, and the existence of strongly mosaic (MSC) paternally transmitted phenotypes that appear after passage of wild-type plants through cell cultures and possess unique rearrangements in the mitochondrial DNA. We sequenced the mitochondrial DNA from three independently produced MSC lines and revealed under-represented regions and reduced transcription of mitochondrial genes carried in these regions relative to the wild-type parental line. Mass spectrometry and Western blots did not corroborate transcriptional differences in the mitochondrial proteome of the MSC mutant lines, indicating that post-transcriptional events, such as protein longevity, may compensate for reduced transcription in MSC mitochondria. Our results support cucumber as a model system to produce transcriptional "knock-downs" of mitochondrial genes useful to study mitochondrial responses and nuclear interactions important for plant performance.
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- Faculty of Horticulture, Agricultural University of Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USDA Agricultural Research Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Cupp JD, Nielsen BL. Minireview: DNA replication in plant mitochondria. Mitochondrion 2014; 19 Pt B:231-7. [PMID: 24681310 PMCID: PMC4177014 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2014.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2013] [Revised: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Higher plant mitochondrial genomes exhibit much greater structural complexity compared to most other organisms. Unlike well-characterized metazoan mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication, an understanding of the mechanism(s) and proteins involved in plant mtDNA replication remains unclear. Several plant mtDNA replication proteins, including DNA polymerases, DNA primase/helicase, and accessory proteins have been identified. Mitochondrial dynamics, genome structure, and the complexity of dual-targeted and dual-function proteins that provide at least partial redundancy suggest that plants have a unique model for maintaining and replicating mtDNA when compared to the replication mechanism utilized by most metazoan organisms.
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- John D Cupp
- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States.
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States.
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Stone JD, Storchova H. The application of RNA-seq to the comprehensive analysis of plant mitochondrial transcriptomes. Mol Genet Genomics 2014; 290:1-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s00438-014-0905-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Kitazaki K, Kubo T, Kagami H, Matsumoto T, Fujita A, Matsuhira H, Matsunaga M, Mikami T. A horizontally transferred tRNA(Cys) gene in the sugar beet mitochondrial genome: evidence that the gene is present in diverse angiosperms and its transcript is aminoacylated. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 68:262-72. [PMID: 21699590 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04684.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Of the two tRNA(Cys) (GCA) genes, trnC1-GCA and trnC2-GCA, previously identified in mitochondrial genome of sugar beet, the former is a native gene and probably a pseudo-copy, whereas the latter, of unknown origin, is transcribed into a tRNA [tRNA(Cys2) (GCA)]. In this study, the trnC2-GCA sequence was mined from various public databases. To evaluate whether or not the trnC2-GCA sequence is located in the mitochondrial genome, the relative copy number of its sequence to nuclear gene was assessed in a number of angiosperm species, using a quantitative real-time PCR assay. The trnC2-GCA sequence was found to exist sporadically in the mitochondrial genomes of a wide range of angiosperms. The mitochondrial tRNA(Cys2) (GCA) species from sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), spinach (Spinacea oleracea) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus) were found to be aminoacylated, indicating that they may participate in translation. We also identified a sugar beet nuclear gene that encodes cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase, which is dual-targeted to mitochondria and plastids, and may aminoacylate tRNA(Cys2) (GCA). What is of particular interest is that trnC1-GCA and trnC2-GCA co-exist in the mitochondrial genomes of eight diverse angiosperms, including spinach, and that the spinach tRNA(Cys1) (GCA) is also aminoacylated. Taken together, our observations lead us to surmise that trnC2-GCA may have been horizontally transferred to a common ancestor of eudicots, followed by co-existence and dual expression of trnC1-GCA and trnC2-GCA in mitochondria with occasional loss or inactivation of either trnC-GCA gene during evolution.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/genetics
- Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/metabolism
- Aminoacylation/genetics
- Beta vulgaris/enzymology
- Beta vulgaris/genetics
- Beta vulgaris/metabolism
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- Databases, Nucleic Acid
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genome, Mitochondrial/genetics
- Magnoliopsida/enzymology
- Magnoliopsida/genetics
- Magnoliopsida/metabolism
- Mitochondria/genetics
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Plant Proteins/genetics
- Plant Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Cys/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Cys/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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- Kazuyoshi Kitazaki
- Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 060-8589 N-9, W-9, Kita-ku Sapporo, Japan
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Woloszynska M. Heteroplasmy and stoichiometric complexity of plant mitochondrial genomes--though this be madness, yet there's method in't. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2010; 61:657-71. [PMID: 19995826 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Mitochondrial heteroplasmy is defined as the coexistence of divergent mitochondrial genotypes in a cell. The ratio of the alternative genomes may be variable, but in plants, the usually prevalent main genome is accompanied by sublimons--substoichiometric mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules. Plant mitochondrial heteroplasmy was originally viewed as being associated with pathological mutations or was found in non-natural plant populations. Currently, it is considered to be a common situation in plants. Recent years have changed the previous view on the role of homologous recombination, small-scale mutations, and paternal leakage of mtDNA in the generation of heteroplasmy. Newly developed sensitive techniques have allowed the precise estimation of mtDNA stoichiometry. Mechanisms of maintenance and transmission of heteroplasmic genomes, including DNA recombination and replication, as well as mitochondrial fusion and fission, have been studied. This review describes the high level of plant mitochondrial genome complication--the 'madness' resulting from the heteroplasmic state and explains the method hidden in this madness. Heteroplasmy is described as the evolutionary strategy of uniparentally inherited plant mitochondrial genomes which do not undergo sexual recombination. In order to compensate for this deficiency, alternative types of mtDNA are substoichiometrically accumulated as a reservoir of genetic variability and may undergo accelerated evolution. Occasionally, sublimons are selected and amplified in the process called substoichiometric shifting, to take over the role of the main genome. Alternative mitochondrial genomes may recombine, yielding new mtDNA variants, or segregate during plant growth resulting in plants with mosaic phenotypes. Two opposite roles of mitochondrial heteroplasmy with respect to acceleration or counteracting of mutation accumulation are also discussed. Finally, nuclear control of heteroplasmy and substoichiometric shifting is described.
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- Magdalena Woloszynska
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Woloszynska M, Trojanowski D. Counting mtDNA molecules in Phaseolus vulgaris: sublimons are constantly produced by recombination via short repeats and undergo rigorous selection during substoichiometric shifting. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 70:511-21. [PMID: 19387845 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-009-9488-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2008] [Accepted: 04/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Sublimons are substoichiometric DNA molecules which are generated by recombinations across short repeats, located in main mitochondrial genome of plants. Since short repeats are believed to recombine irreversibly and to be usually inactive, it is unknown how substoichiometric sequences are maintained. Occasionally, sublimons are amplified during substoichiometric shifting (SSS) and take the role of the main genome. Using the Phaseolus vulgaris system, we have addressed the questions concerning accumulation of sublimons, the role of recombination in their maintenance and selective amplification during SSS. We found that sublimons accompanied by parental recombination sequences were maintained by constant recombination across a short 314-bp repeat. The abundance of these sublimons was three orders of magnitude higher than accumulation of those which could not be maintained by recombination because their parental forms were absent from the main genome. As expected for active recombination, two recombination-derived sublimons were equimolar and so were their parental forms. One parental and one substoichiometric form shared the A/C polymorphism indicating their frequent inter-conversion. Only the C variant of the sublimon was amplified during substoichiometric shift implying strong selection of DNA molecules operating during SSS.
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- Magdalena Woloszynska
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Przybyszewskiego 63/77, Wroclaw, Poland.
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