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Ahmed T, Shi J, Bhushan S. Unique localization of the plastid-specific ribosomal proteins in the chloroplast ribosome small subunit provides mechanistic insights into the chloroplastic translation. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:8581-8595. [PMID: 28582576 PMCID: PMC5737520 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Chloroplastic translation is mediated by a bacterial-type 70S chloroplast ribosome. During the evolution, chloroplast ribosomes have acquired five plastid-specific ribosomal proteins or PSRPs (cS22, cS23, bTHXc, cL37 and cL38) which have been suggested to play important regulatory roles in translation. However, their exact locations on the chloroplast ribosome remain elusive due to lack of a high-resolution structure, hindering our progress to understand their possible roles. Here we present a cryo-EM structure of the 70S chloroplast ribosome from spinach resolved to 3.4 Å and focus our discussion mainly on the architecture of the 30S small subunit (SSU) which is resolved to 3.7 Å. cS22 localizes at the SSU foot where it seems to compensate for the deletions in 16S rRNA. The mRNA exit site is highly remodeled due to the presence of cS23 suggesting an alternative mode of translation initiation. bTHXc is positioned at the SSU head and appears to stabilize the intersubunit bridge B1b during thermal fluctuations. The translation factor plastid pY binds to the SSU on the intersubunit side and interacts with the conserved nucleotide bases involved in decoding. Most of the intersubunit bridges are conserved compared to the bacteria, except for a new bridge involving uL2c and bS6c.
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- Tofayel Ahmed
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637551, Singapore
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- Center for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117546, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637551, Singapore.,NTU Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore
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Graf M, Arenz S, Huter P, Dönhöfer A, Novácek J, Wilson DN. Cryo-EM structure of the spinach chloroplast ribosome reveals the location of plastid-specific ribosomal proteins and extensions. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:2887-2896. [PMID: 27986857 PMCID: PMC5389730 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Ribosomes are the protein synthesizing machines of the cell. Recent advances in cryo-EM have led to the determination of structures from a variety of species, including bacterial 70S and eukaryotic 80S ribosomes as well as mitoribosomes from eukaryotic mitochondria, however, to date high resolution structures of plastid 70S ribosomes have been lacking. Here we present a cryo-EM structure of the spinach chloroplast 70S ribosome, with an average resolution of 5.4 Å for the small 30S subunit and 3.6 Å for the large 50S ribosomal subunit. The structure reveals the location of the plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (RPs) PSRP1, PSRP4, PSRP5 and PSRP6 as well as the numerous plastid-specific extensions of the RPs. We discover many features by which the plastid-specific extensions stabilize the ribosome via establishing additional interactions with surrounding ribosomal RNA and RPs. Moreover, we identify a large conglomerate of plastid-specific protein mass adjacent to the tunnel exit site that could facilitate interaction of the chloroplast ribosome with the thylakoid membrane and the protein-targeting machinery. Comparing the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome with that of the spinach chloroplast ribosome provides detailed insight into the co-evolution of RP and rRNA.
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- Michael Graf
- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Bieri P, Leibundgut M, Saurer M, Boehringer D, Ban N. The complete structure of the chloroplast 70S ribosome in complex with translation factor pY. EMBO J 2016; 36:475-486. [PMID: 28007896 PMCID: PMC5694952 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201695959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Chloroplasts are cellular organelles of plants and algae that are responsible for energy conversion and carbon fixation by the photosynthetic reaction. As a consequence of their endosymbiotic origin, they still contain their own genome and the machinery for protein biosynthesis. Here, we present the atomic structure of the chloroplast 70S ribosome prepared from spinach leaves and resolved by cryo‐EM at 3.4 Å resolution. The complete structure reveals the features of the 4.5S rRNA, which probably evolved by the fragmentation of the 23S rRNA, and all five plastid‐specific ribosomal proteins. These proteins, required for proper assembly and function of the chloroplast translation machinery, bind and stabilize rRNA including regions that only exist in the chloroplast ribosome. Furthermore, the structure reveals plastid‐specific extensions of ribosomal proteins that extensively remodel the mRNA entry and exit site on the small subunit as well as the polypeptide tunnel exit and the putative binding site of the signal recognition particle on the large subunit. The translation factor pY, involved in light‐ and temperature‐dependent control of protein synthesis, is bound to the mRNA channel of the small subunit and interacts with 16S rRNA nucleotides at the A‐site and P‐site, where it protects the decoding centre and inhibits translation by preventing tRNA binding. The small subunit is locked by pY in a non‐rotated state, in which the intersubunit bridges to the large subunit are stabilized.
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- Philipp Bieri
- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Cryo-EM structure of the large subunit of the spinach chloroplast ribosome. Sci Rep 2016; 6:35793. [PMID: 27762343 PMCID: PMC5071890 DOI: 10.1038/srep35793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Protein synthesis in the chloroplast is mediated by the chloroplast ribosome (chloro-ribosome). Overall architecture of the chloro-ribosome is considerably similar to the Escherichia coli (E. coli) ribosome but certain differences are evident. The chloro-ribosome proteins are generally larger because of the presence of chloroplast-specific extensions in their N- and C-termini. The chloro-ribosome harbours six plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (PSRPs); four in the small subunit and two in the large subunit. Deletions and insertions occur throughout the rRNA sequence of the chloro-ribosome (except for the conserved peptidyl transferase center region) but the overall length of the rRNAs do not change significantly, compared to the E. coli. Although, recent advancements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have provided detailed high-resolution structures of ribosomes from many different sources, a high-resolution structure of the chloro-ribosome is still lacking. Here, we present a cryo-EM structure of the large subunit of the chloro-ribosome from spinach (Spinacia oleracea) at an average resolution of 3.5 Å. High-resolution map enabled us to localize and model chloro-ribosome proteins, chloroplast-specific protein extensions, two PSRPs (PSRP5 and 6) and three rRNA molecules present in the chloro-ribosome. Although comparable to E. coli, the polypeptide tunnel and the tunnel exit site show chloroplast-specific features.
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Isolation, characterization, phosphorylation and site of synthesis of Spinacia chloroplast ribosomal proteins. Curr Genet 2013; 8:147-54. [PMID: 24177589 DOI: 10.1007/bf00420227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/1983] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We have characterized the ribosomal proteins from Spinacia chloroplasts using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The 30S and 50S subunits contain 23-25 and 36 ribosomal proteins, respectively. In contrast to prokaryotic ribosomes, chloroplast ribosomes contain at least one (and possibly two) phosphorylated ribosomal proteins. Isolated chloroplasts synthesize in the presence of ((35)S) labeled methionine and cysteine at least seven 30S and thirteen 50S ribosomal proteins which are assembled into (pre)ribosomes. This suggests that about one third of the chloroplast ribosomal proteins is encoded by the chloroplast DNA itself. The identity of several labeled proteins in the two-dimensional gel electrophoretic patterns which did not comigrate with stained chloroplast ribosomal proteins is discussed.
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Rozier C, Mache R. Binding of 16S rRNA to chloroplast 30S ribosomal proteins blotted on nitrocellulose. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 12:7293-304. [PMID: 16617474 PMCID: PMC320162 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.19.7293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Protein-RNA associations were studied by a method using proteins blotted on a nitrocellulose sheet. This method was assayed with Escherichia Coli 30S ribosomal components. In stringent conditions (300 mM NaCl or 20 degrees C) only 9 E. coli ribosomal proteins strongly bound to the 16S rRNA: S4, S5, S7, S9, S12, S13, S14, S19, S20. 8 of these proteins have been previously found to bind independently to the 16S rRNA. The same method was applied to determine protein-RNA interactions in spinach chloroplast 30S ribosomal subunits. A set of only 7 proteins was bound to chloroplast rRNA in stringent conditions: chloroplast S6, S10, S11, S14, S15, S17 and S22. They also bound to E. coli 16S rRNA. This set includes 4 chloroplast-synthesized proteins: S6, S11, S15 and S22. The core particles obtained after treatment by LiCl of chloroplast 30S ribosomal subunit contained 3 proteins (S6, S10 and S14) which are included in the set of 7 binding proteins. This set of proteins probably play a part in the early steps of the assembly of the chloroplast 30S ribosomal subunit.
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- C Rozier
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, CNRS-UA 571,. Université de Grenoble I, 38402 St Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
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Wang F, Zhong NQ, Gao P, Wang GL, Wang HY, Xia GX. SsTypA1, a chloroplast-specific TypA/BipA-type GTPase from the halophytic plant Suaeda salsa, plays a role in oxidative stress tolerance. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2008; 31:982-94. [PMID: 18373622 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01810.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Suaeda salsa is a leaf-succulent euhalophytic plant capable of surviving under seawater salinity. Here, we report the isolation and functional analysis of a novel Suaeda gene (designated as SsTypA1) encoding a member of the TypA/BipA GTPase gene family. The steady-state transcript level of SsTypA1 in S. salsa was up-regulated in response to various external stressors. Expression of SsTypA1 was restricted to the epidermal layers of the leaf and stem in S. salsa, and SsTypA1-green fluorescence protein (GFP) fusion proteins were targeted to the chloroplasts of tobacco leaves. Ectopic over-expression of SsTypA1 rendered the transgenic tobacco plants with significantly increased tolerance to oxidative stress, and this was accompanied by a reduction in H(2)O(2) content. Enzymatic and Western blot analyses revealed that the activity and amount of the thylakoid-bound NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex in the chloroplasts of leaf cells were enhanced. Additionally, an in vitro assay demonstrated that SsTypA1 bound to GTP and possessed GTPase activity that was stimulated by the presence of chloroplast 70S ribosomes. Together, these results suggest that SsTypA1 may play a critical role in the development of oxidative stress tolerance, perhaps as a translational regulator of the stress-responsive proteins involved in reactive oxygen species (ROS) suppression in chloroplast.
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- Fang Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing 100101, China
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Cryo-EM study of the spinach chloroplast ribosome reveals the structural and functional roles of plastid-specific ribosomal proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:19315-20. [PMID: 18042701 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709856104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Protein synthesis in the chloroplast is carried out by chloroplast ribosomes (chloro-ribosome) and regulated in a light-dependent manner. Chloroplast or plastid ribosomal proteins (PRPs) generally are larger than their bacterial counterparts, and chloro-ribosomes contain additional plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (PSRPs); however, it is unclear to what extent these proteins play structural or regulatory roles during translation. We have obtained a three-dimensional cryo-EM map of the spinach 70S chloro-ribosome, revealing the overall structural organization to be similar to bacterial ribosomes. Fitting of the conserved portions of the x-ray crystallographic structure of the bacterial 70S ribosome into our cryo-EM map of the chloro-ribosome reveals the positions of PRP extensions and the locations of the PSRPs. Surprisingly, PSRP1 binds in the decoding region of the small (30S) ribosomal subunit, in a manner that would preclude the binding of messenger and transfer RNAs to the ribosome, suggesting that PSRP1 is a translation factor rather than a ribosomal protein. PSRP2 and PSRP3 appear to structurally compensate for missing segments of the 16S rRNA within the 30S subunit, whereas PSRP4 occupies a position buried within the head of the 30S subunit. One of the two PSRPs in the large (50S) ribosomal subunit lies near the tRNA exit site. Furthermore, we find a mass of density corresponding to chloro-ribosome recycling factor; domain II of this factor appears to interact with the flexible C-terminal domain of PSRP1. Our study provides evolutionary insights into the structural and functional roles that the PSRPs play during protein synthesis in chloroplasts.
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Yamaguchi K, Subramanian AR. Proteomic identification of all plastid-specific ribosomal proteins in higher plant chloroplast 30S ribosomal subunit. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2003; 270:190-205. [PMID: 12605670 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03359.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Six ribosomal proteins are specific to higher plant chloroplast ribosomes [Subramanian, A.R. (1993) Trends Biochem. Sci.18, 177-180]. Three of them have been fully characterized [Yamaguchi, K., von Knoblauch, K. & Subramanian, A. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 28455-28465; Yamaguchi, K. & Subramanian, A. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 28466-28482]. The remaining three plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (PSRPs), all on the small subunit, have now been characterized (2D PAGE, HPLC, N-terminal/internal peptide sequencing, electrospray ionization MS, cloning/ sequencing of precursor cDNAs). PSRP-3 exists in two forms (alpha/beta, N-terminus free and blocked by post-translational modification), whereas PSRP-2 and PSRP-4 appear, from MS data, to be unmodified. PSRP-2 contains two RNA-binding domains which occur in mRNA processing/stabilizing proteins (e.g. U1A snRNP, poly(A)-binding proteins), suggesting a possible role for it in the recruiting of stored chloroplast mRNAs for active protein synthesis. PSRP-3 is the higher plant orthologue of a hypothetical protein (ycf65 gene product), first reported in the chloroplast genome of a red alga. The ycf65 gene is absent from the chloroplast genomes of higher plants. Therefore, we suggest that Psrp-3/ycf65, encoding an evolutionarily conserved chloroplast ribosomal protein, represents an example of organelle-to-nucleus gene transfer in chloroplast evolution. PSRP-4 shows strong homology with Thx, a small basic ribosomal protein of Thermus thermophilus 30S subunit (with a specific structural role in the subunit crystallographic structure), but its orthologues are absent from Escherichia coli and the photosynthetic bacterium Synechocystis. We would therefore suggest that PSRP-4 is an example of gene capture (via horizontal gene transfer) during chloro-ribosome emergence. Orthologues of all six PSRPs are identifiable in the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana and in the higher plant expressed sequence tag database. All six PSRPs are nucleus-encoded. The cytosolic precursors of PSRP-2, PSRP-3, and PSRP-4 have average targeting peptides (62, 58, and 54 residues long), and the mature proteins are of 196, 121, and 47 residues length (molar masses, 21.7, 13.8 and 5.2 kDa), respectively. Functions of the PSRPs as active participants in translational regulation, the key feature of chloroplast protein synthesis, are discussed and a model is proposed.
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- Kenichi Yamaguchi
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
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Kamp RM, Srinivasa BR, Von Knoblauch K, Subramanian AR. Occurrence of a methylated protein in chloroplast ribosomes. Biochemistry 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/bi00392a043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Yamaguchi K, Subramanian AR. The plastid ribosomal proteins. Identification of all the proteins in the 50 S subunit of an organelle ribosome (chloroplast). J Biol Chem 2000; 275:28466-82. [PMID: 10874046 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m005012200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have completed identification of all the ribosomal proteins (RPs) in spinach plastid (chloroplast) ribosomal 50 S subunit via a proteomic approach using two-dimensional electrophoresis, electroblotting/protein sequencing, high performance liquid chromatography purification, polymerase chain reaction-based screening of cDNA library/nucleotide sequencing, and mass spectrometry (reversed-phase HPLC coupled to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry). Spinach plastid 50 S subunit comprises 33 proteins, of which 31 are orthologues of Escherichia coli RPs and two are plastid-specific RPs (PSRP-5 and PSRP-6) having no homologues in other types of ribosomes. Orthologues of E. coli L25 and L30 are absent in spinach plastid ribosome. 25 of the plastid 50 S RPs are encoded in the nuclear genome and synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes, whereas eight of the plastid RPs are encoded in the plastid organelle genome and synthesized on plastid ribosomes. Sites for transit peptide cleavages in the cytosolic RP precursors and formyl Met processing in the plastid-synthesized RPs were established. Post-translational modifications were observed in several mature plastid RPs, including multiple forms of L10, L18, L31, and PSRP-5 and N-terminal/internal modifications in L2, L11 and L16. Comparison of the RPs in gradient-purified 70 S ribosome with those in the 30 and 50 S subunits revealed an additional protein, in approximately stoichiometric amount, specific to the 70 S ribosome. It was identified to be plastid ribosome recycling factor. Combining with our recent study of the proteins in plastid 30 S subunit (Yamaguchi, K., von Knoblauch, K., and Subramanian, A. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 28455-28465), we show that spinach plastid ribosome comprises 59 proteins (33 in 50 S subunit and 25 in 30 S subunit and ribosome recycling factor in 70 S), of which 53 are E. coli orthologues and 6 are plastid-specific proteins (PSRP-1 to PSRP-6). We propose the hypothesis that PSRPs were evolved to perform functions unique to plastid translation and its regulation, including protein targeting/translocation to thylakoid membrane via plastid 50 S subunit.
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- K Yamaguchi
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85712, USA
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Yamaguchi K, von Knoblauch K, Subramanian AR. The plastid ribosomal proteins. Identification of all the proteins in the 30 S subunit of an organelle ribosome (chloroplast). J Biol Chem 2000; 275:28455-65. [PMID: 10874039 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m004350200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Identification of all the protein components of a plastid (chloroplast) ribosomal 30 S subunit has been achieved, using two-dimensional gel electropholesis, high performance liquid chromatography purification, N-terminal sequencing, polymerase chain reaction-based screening of cDNA library, nucleotide sequencing, and mass spectrometry (electrospray ionization, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight, and reversed-phase HPLC coupled with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry). 25 proteins were identified, of which 21 are orthologues of all Escherichia coli 30 S ribosomal proteins (S1-S21), and 4 are plastid-specific ribosomal proteins (PSRPs) that have no homologues in the mitochondrial, archaebacterial, or cytosolic ribosomal protein sequences in data bases. 12 of the 25 plastid 30 S ribosomal proteins (PRPs) are encoded in the plastid genome, whereas the remaining 13 are encoded by the nuclear genome. Post-translational transit peptide cleavage sites for the maturation of the 13 cytosolically synthesized PRPs, and post-translational N-terminal processing in the maturation of the 12 plastid synthesized PRPs are described. Post-translational modifications in several PRPs were observed: alpha-N-acetylation of S9, N-terminal processings leading to five mature forms of S6 and two mature forms of S10, C-terminal and/or internal modifications in S1, S14, S18, and S19, leading to two distinct forms differing in mass and/or charge (the corresponding modifications are not observed in E. coli). The four PSRPs in spinach plastid 30 S ribosomal subunit (PSRP-1, 26.8 kDa, pI 6.2; PSRP-2, 21.7 kDa, pI 5.0; PSRP-3, 13.8 kDa, pI 4.9; PSRP-4, 5.2 kDa, pI 11.8) comprise 16% (67.6 kDa) of the total protein mass of the 30 S subunit (429.3 kDa). PSRP-1 and PSRP-3 show sequence similarities with hypothetical photosynthetic bacterial proteins, indicating their possible origins in photosynthetic bacteria. We propose the hypothesis that PSRPs form a "plastid translational regulatory module" on the 30 S ribosomal subunit structure for the possible mediation of nuclear factors on plastid translation.
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- K Yamaguchi
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Weglöhner W, Jünemann R, von Knoblauch K, Subramanian AR. Different consequences of incorporating chloroplast ribosomal proteins L12 and S18 into the bacterial ribosomes of Escherichia coli. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 249:383-92. [PMID: 9370344 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00383.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have incorporated chloroplast ribosomal proteins (R-proteins) L12 and S18 into Escherichia coli ribosomes and examined the hybrid ribosomes for their ability to form polysomes in vivo and perform poly(U)-dependent poly(Phe) synthesis in vitro. The rye chloroplast S18 used for the experiment is a highly divergent protein (170 amino acid residues; E. coil S18, 74 residues), containing a repeating, chloroplast-specific, heptapeptide motif, and has amino acid sequence identity of only 35% to E. coli S18. When expressed in E. coli, chloroplast S18 was assembled in E. coli ribosomes. The latter formed polysomes in vivo at about the same rate as the host ribosomes, indicating that the replacement of E. coli S18 with its chloroplast homologue has only a minor, if any, effect on function. The L12 protein is much more conserved in sequence and chain length, and is known to have a very important function. The Arabidopsis chloroplast L12 used in the experiment was incorporated into E. coli 50S subunits that associated with the 30S subunits to form ribosomes, but the latter were unable to form polysomes. This result indicates functional inactivation of E. coil ribosomes by a chloroplast R-protein. To further confirm this result, we overproduced chloroplast L12 through the use of a secretion vector and purified the protein to homogeneity. Chloroplast L12 could be efficiently incorporated in vitro into L7/12-lacking E. coli ribosomes, but the hybrid ribosomes were totally inactive in poly(U)-dependent poly(Phe) synthesis. Computer modeling of the spatial structure of all known chloroplast L12 proteins (using E. coli L12 coordinates) indicated a 'chloroplast loop' present only in chloroplast L12. The presence of this loop might have a role in the observed inactivation. Taken together with previously reported results (summarized in this paper), it would appear that the features of chloroplast R-proteins concerned with specific functions are more divergent than their assembly properties. We have previously described methods suitable for overproduction and purification of chloroplast R-proteins that are encoded in organellar DNA (approximately 20), but that gave poor yield for those encoded in the nuclear DNA (approximately 45). Here we describe a method that overcomes this problem and allows the purification of nucleus-encoded chloroplast R-proteins in milligram quantities.
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- W Weglöhner
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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Consistent with their postulated origin from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria, chloroplasts of plants and algae have ribosomes whose component RNAs and proteins are strikingly similar to those of eubacteria. Comparison of the secondary structures of 16S rRNAs of chloroplasts and bacteria has been particularly useful in identifying highly conserved regions likely to have essential functions. Comparative analysis of ribosomal protein sequences may likewise prove valuable in determining their roles in protein synthesis. This review is concerned primarily with the RNAs and proteins that constitute the chloroplast ribosome, the genes that encode these components, and their expression. It begins with an overview of chloroplast genome structure in land plants and algae and then presents a brief comparison of chloroplast and prokaryotic protein-synthesizing systems and a more detailed analysis of chloroplast rRNAs and ribosomal proteins. A description of the synthesis and assembly of chloroplast ribosomes follows. The review concludes with discussion of whether chloroplast protein synthesis is essential for cell survival.
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- E H Harris
- DCMB Group, Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-1000
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Consistent with their postulated origin from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria, chloroplasts of plants and algae have ribosomes whose component RNAs and proteins are strikingly similar to those of eubacteria. Comparison of the secondary structures of 16S rRNAs of chloroplasts and bacteria has been particularly useful in identifying highly conserved regions likely to have essential functions. Comparative analysis of ribosomal protein sequences may likewise prove valuable in determining their roles in protein synthesis. This review is concerned primarily with the RNAs and proteins that constitute the chloroplast ribosome, the genes that encode these components, and their expression. It begins with an overview of chloroplast genome structure in land plants and algae and then presents a brief comparison of chloroplast and prokaryotic protein-synthesizing systems and a more detailed analysis of chloroplast rRNAs and ribosomal proteins. A description of the synthesis and assembly of chloroplast ribosomes follows. The review concludes with discussion of whether chloroplast protein synthesis is essential for cell survival.
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- E H Harris
- DCMB Group, Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-1000
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Bubunenko M, Subramanian A. Recognition of novel and divergent higher plant chloroplast ribosomal proteins by Escherichia coli ribosome during in vivo assembly. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32438-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Liao D, Dennis PP. Molecular phylogenies based on ribosomal protein L11, L1, L10, and L12 sequences. J Mol Evol 1994; 38:405-19. [PMID: 8007008 DOI: 10.1007/bf00163157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Available sequences that correspond to the E. coli ribosomal proteins L11, L1, L10, and L12 from eubacteria, archaebacteria, and eukaryotes have been aligned. The alignments were analyzed qualitatively for shared structural features and for conservation of deletions or insertions. The alignments were further subjected to quantitative phylogenetic analysis, and the amino acid identity between selected pairs of sequences was calculated. In general, eubacteria, archaebacteria, and eukaryotes each form coherent and well-resolved nonoverlapping phylogenetic domains. The degree of diversity of the four proteins between the three groups is not uniform. For L11, the eubacterial and archaebacterial proteins are very similar whereas the eukaryotic L11 is clearly less similar. In contrast, in the case of the L12 proteins and to a lesser extent the L10 proteins, the archaebacterial and eukaryotic proteins are similar whereas the eubacterial proteins are different. The eukaryotic L1 equivalent protein has yet to be identified. If the root of the universal tree is near or within the eubacterial domain, our ribosomal protein-based phylogenies indicate that archaebacteria are monophyletic. The eukaryotic lineage appears to originate either near or within the archaebacterial domain.
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- D Liao
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Weglöhner W, Subramanian A. Multicopy GTPase center protein L12 of Arabidopsis chloroplast ribosome is encoded by a clustered nuclear gene family with the expressed members closely linked to tRNA(Pro) genes. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37288-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Schmidt J, Bubunenko M, Subramanian AR. A novel operon organization involving the genes for chorismate synthase (aromatic biosynthesis pathway) and ribosomal GTPase center proteins (L11, L1, L10, L12: rplKAJL) in cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74268-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Schmidt J, Herfurth E, Subramanian AR. Purification and characterization of seven chloroplast ribosomal proteins: evidence that organelle ribosomal protein genes are functional and that NH2-terminal processing occurs via multiple pathways in chloroplasts. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1992; 20:459-65. [PMID: 1421149 DOI: 10.1007/bf00040605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Putative genes for 21 ribosomal proteins (RPs) have been identified in the chloroplast DNA of four plants by nucleotide sequencing and homology comparison but few of the gene products have been characterized. Here we report the purification and N-terminal sequencing of seven proteins from the spinach chloroplast ribosome. The data show them to be the homologues of Escherichia coli RPs L20, L32, L33, L36, S12, S16 and S19, and thus support the view that their genes identified in the chloroplast DNA represent functional genes. The initiating methionine residue was not detected in the mature protein in most cases but it was present in S16, indicating that only the formyl group is removed in this case. This result and the previously reported finding of N-methyl alanine at the N-terminus of chloroplast L2 indicate the existence of multiple N-terminal processing pathways in the chloroplast.
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- J Schmidt
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Abt. Wittmann, Dahlem, Germany
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Elhag G, Bourque D. Nuclear-encoded tobacco chloroplast ribosomal protein L24. Protein identification, sequence analysis of cDNAs encoding its cytoplasmic precursor, and mRNA and genomic DNA analysis. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)36669-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Li Y, Itadani H, Sugita M, Sugiura M. cDNA cloning and sequencing of tobacco chloroplast ribosomal protein L12. FEBS Lett 1992; 300:199-202. [PMID: 1555644 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80845-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tobacco chloroplast ribosomal protein L12 was isolated as a ssDNA-cellulose-binding protein from a chloroplast soluble protein fraction. Based on the N-terminal amino acid sequence of chloroplast L12, a cDNA clone was isolated and characterized. The precursor protein deduced from the DNA sequence consists of a transient peptide of 53 amino acid residues and a mature L12 protein of 133 amino acid residues. The chloroplast L12 protein was synthesized with a reticulocyte lysate and subjected to nucleic acid-binding assays. L12 synthesized in vitro does not bind to ssDNA, dsDNA nor ribonucleotide homopolymers, but it binds to cellulose matrix.
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- Y Li
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Japan
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Elhag GA, Thomas FJ, McCreery TP, Bourque DP. Nuclear-encoded chloroplast ribosomal protein L12 of Nicotiana tabacum: characterization of mature protein and isolation and sequence analysis of cDNA clones encoding its cytoplasmic precursor. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:689-97. [PMID: 1542565 PMCID: PMC312006 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.4.689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Poly(A)+ mRNA isolated from Nicotiana tabacum (cv. Petite Havana) leaves was used to prepare a cDNA library in the expression vector lambda gt11. Recombinant phage containing cDNAs coding for chloroplast ribosomal protein L12 were identified and sequenced. Mature tobacco L12 protein has 44% amino acid identity with ribosomal protein L7/L12 of Escherichia coli. The longest L12 cDNA (733 nucleotides) codes for a 13,823 molecular weight polypeptide with a transit peptide of 53 amino acids and a mature protein of 133 amino acids. The transit peptide and mature protein share 43% and 79% amino acid identity, respectively, with corresponding regions of spinach chloroplast ribosomal protein L12. The predicted amino terminus of the mature protein was confirmed by partial sequence analysis of HPLC-purified tobacco chloroplast ribosomal protein L12. A single L12 mRNA of about 0.8 kb was detected by hybridization of L12 cDNA to poly(A)+ and total leaf RNA. Hybridization patterns of restriction fragments of tobacco genomic DNA probed with the L12 cDNA suggested the existence of more than one gene for ribosomal protein L12. Characterization of a second cDNA with an identical L12 coding sequence but a different 3'-noncoding sequence provided evidence that at least two L12 genes are expressed in tobacco.
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- G A Elhag
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Johnson CH, Subramanian AR. Chloroplast ribosomal protein L15, like L1, L13 and L21, is significantly larger than its E. coli homologue. FEBS Lett 1991; 282:268-72. [PMID: 2037044 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)80492-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The purification and identification by peptide sequence and immunological data of the spinach chloroplast homologue of E. coli L15 is presented. A significant increase in its mass over the E. coli counterpart is shown and is accounted for, in part, by a sequenced 18-residue N-terminal extension. A still larger C-terminal extension or internal insertion(s) is inferred. The migration position of the L15 in a 2D gel pattern of spinach chloroplast 50S subunit proteins is shown. Lack of sequence identity with the known chloroplast genomic data confirms the nuclear coding of this protein, and the N-terminal sequence given here provides the transit peptide cleavage site of the cytoplasmic precursor.
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- C H Johnson
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Abteilung Wittmann, Berlin, Germany
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Liljas A. Comparative biochemistry and biophysics of ribosomal proteins. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1991; 124:103-36. [PMID: 2001915 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61525-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- A Liljas
- Department of Molecular Biophysics, Lund University, Sweden
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A ribosomal protein is encoded in the chloroplast DNA in a lower plant but in the nucleus in angiosperms. Isolation of the spinach L21 protein and cDNA clone with transit and an unusual repeat sequence. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)46277-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Johnson CH, Kruft V, Subramanian AR. Identification of a plastid-specific ribosomal protein in the 30 S subunit of chloroplast ribosomes and isolation of the cDNA clone encoding its cytoplasmic precursor. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38228-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Shimmin LC, Ramirez C, Matheson AT, Dennis PP. Sequence alignment and evolutionary comparison of the L10 equivalent and L12 equivalent ribosomal proteins from archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eucaryotes. J Mol Evol 1989; 29:448-62. [PMID: 2515294 DOI: 10.1007/bf02602915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The genes corresponding to the L10 and L12 equivalent ribosomal proteins (L10e and L12e) of Escherichia coli have been cloned and sequenced from two widely divergent species of archaebacteria, Halobacterium cutirubrum and Sulfolobus solfataricus. The deduced amino acid sequences of the L10e and L12e proteins have been compared to each other and to available eubacterial and eucaryotic sequences. We have identified the human P0 protein as the eucaryotic L10e. The L10e proteins from the three kingdoms were found to be colinear. The eubacterial L10e protein is much shorter than the archaebacterial-eucaryotic proteins because of two large deletions, one internal and one at the carboxy terminus. The archaebacterial and eucaryotic L12e proteins were also colinear; the eubacterial protein is homologous to the archaebacterial and eucaryotic L12e proteins, but has suffered rearrangement through what appear to be gene fusion events. Intraspecies comparisons between L10e and L12e sequences indicate the archaebacterial and eucaryotic L10e proteins contain a partial copy of the L12e protein fused to their carboxy terminus. In the eubacteria most of this fusion has been removed by the carboxy terminal deletion. Within the L12e-derived region, a 26-amino acid-long internal modular sequence reiterated thrice in the archaebacterial L10e, twice in the eucaryotic L10e, and once in the eubacterial L10e was discovered. This modular sequence also appears to be present as a single copy in all L12e proteins and may play a role in L12e dimerization, L10e-L12e complex formation, and the function of L10e-L12e complex in translation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- L C Shimmin
- Department of Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Prombona A, Subramanian AR. A new rearrangement of angiosperm chloroplast DNA in rye (Secale cereale) involving translocation and duplication of the ribosomal rpS15 gene. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47266-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Randolph-Anderson BL, Gillham NW, Boynton JE. Electrophoretic and immunological comparisons of chloroplast and prokaryotic ribosomal proteins reveal that certain families of large subunit proteins are evolutionarily conserved. J Mol Evol 1989; 29:68-88. [PMID: 2504932 DOI: 10.1007/bf02106183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Antibodies to individual chloroplast ribosomal (r-)proteins of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii synthesized in either the chloroplast or the cytoplasm were used to examine the relatedness of Chlamydomonas r-proteins to r-proteins from the spinach (Spinacia oleracea) chloroplast, Escherichia coli, and the cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120. In addition, 35S-labeled chloroplast r-proteins from large and small subunits of C. reinhardtii were co-electrophoresed on 2-D gels with unlabeled r-proteins from similar subunits of spinach chloroplasts, E. coli, and Anabaena to compare their size and net charge. Comigrating protein pairs were not always immunologically related, whereas immunologically related r-protein pairs often did not comigrate but differed only slightly in charge and molecular weight. In contrast, when 35S-labeled chloroplast r-proteins from large and small subunits of a closely related species C. smithii were coelectrophoresed with unlabeled C. reinhardtii chloroplast r-proteins, only one pair of proteins from each subunit showed a net displacement in mobility. Analysis of immunoblots of one-dimensional SDS and two-dimensional urea/SDS gels of large and small subunit r-proteins from these species revealed more antigenic conservation among the four species of large subunit r-proteins than small subunit r-proteins. Anabaena r-proteins showed the greatest immunological similarity to C. reinhardtii chloroplast r-proteins. In general, antisera made against chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins in C. reinhardtii showed much higher levels of cross-reactivity with r-proteins from Anabaena, spinach, and E. coli than did antisera to cytoplasmically synthesized r-proteins. All spinach r-proteins that cross-reacted with antisera to chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins of C. reinhardtii are known to be made in the chloroplast (Dorne et al. 1984b). Four E. coli r-proteins encoded by the S10 operon (L2, S3, L16, and L23) were found to be conserved immunologically among the four species. Two of the large subunit r-proteins, L2 and L16, are essential for peptidyltransferase activity. The third (L23) and two other E. coli large subunit r-proteins (L5 and L27) that have immunological equivalents among the four species are functionally related to but not essential for peptidyltransferase activity.
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Giese K, Subramanian AR. Chloroplast ribosomal protein L12 is encoded in the nucleus: construction and identification of its cDNA clones and nucleotide sequence including the transit peptide. Biochemistry 1989; 28:3525-9. [PMID: 2568127 DOI: 10.1021/bi00434a056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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An architectural feature found in all classes of ribosomes is a thin, 10-nm-long protuberance in the large subunit, generated by multiple copies of r-protein L12. The primary structure of spinach chloroplast r-protein L12 is known [Bartsch, M., Kimura, M., & Subramanian, A. R. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79, 6871-6875], but the location of its gene, whether in the organelle or in the nucleus, has not been determined. Therefore, we synthesized four oligodeoxynucleotides based on the amino acid sequence data and used them to probe a spinach cDNA library we constructed in lambda gt11 vector. cDNA inserts from four of the hybridizing recombinant clones were characterized and sequenced. The data showed that they are reverse transcripts of varying length, all derived from a single poly(A+) RNA species. The longest cDNA molecule is 900 base pairs (bp) long and includes a 5' noncoding sequence followed by two neighboring AUG codons both in the consensus, eukaryotic initiator context, a 56-codon-long transit peptide sequence (starting from the first AUG codon), the amino acid sequence of mature L12 protein, and a 238 bp long 3' downstream noncoding sequence including a polyadenylation signal and the start of the poly(A) tail. The transit peptide sequence has an unusual amino acid composition similar to that of other known chloroplast transit peptides. Northern blot analysis of the poly(A+) RNA isolated from spinach seedlings and probed with the cDNA insert revealed the occurrence of a strong, broad, 950-nucleotide-long band of the corresponding poly(A+)-containing mRNA species.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- K Giese
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Abteilung Wittmann, Berlin, West Germany
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Bushuev VN, Gudkov AT, Liljas A, Sepetov NF. The flexible region of protein L12 from bacterial ribosomes studied by proton nuclear magnetic resonance. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83771-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Phua SH, Srinivasa BR, Subramanian AR. Chloroplast Ribosomal Protein L13 Is Encoded in the Nucleus And Is Considerably Larger Than Its Bacterial Homologue. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)94129-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Gantt JS. Nucleotide sequences of cDNAs encoding four complete nuclear-encoded plastid ribosomal proteins. Curr Genet 1988; 14:519-28. [PMID: 3066512 DOI: 10.1007/bf00521278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The nucleotide sequences of four pea nuclear-encoded plastid ribosomal protein cDNAs have been determined. These cDNAs were shown to encode the complete precursor proteins. The transit sequences of the encoded proteins are similar to the transit sequences of other imported proteins being rich in serine and/or threonine and lacking aspartic and glutamic acid. The transit sequences do not, however, have any apparent amino acid sequence similarity with one another or with the transit sequences of other imported proteins. The derived amino acid sequences of the plastid ribosomal proteins were compared to the amino acid sequences of other ribosomal proteins. Significant amino acid sequence similarity was found between Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins L9 and L24 and two of the nuclear-encoded pea plastid ribosomal proteins.
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- J S Gantt
- Department of Botany, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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Ohto C, Torazawa K, Tanaka M, Shinozaki K, Sugiura M. Transcription of ten ribosomal protein genes from tobacco chloroplasts: a compilation of ribosomal protein genes found in the tobacco chloroplast genome. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1988; 11:589-600. [PMID: 24272493 DOI: 10.1007/bf00017459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/1988] [Accepted: 08/10/1988] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Transcription of rps2, rps4, rps7, rps11, rps14, rps15, rps18, rpl20, rpl33 and rpl36 from the tobacco chloroplast genome has been studied. Northern blot analysis has revealed that all these genes are transcribed in the chloroplast. Multiple transcripts were detected for all the genes and amounts of the transcripts were quite different among the ten genes. These ten ribosomal protein genes together with the ten other ribosomal protein genes published previously were complied and compared. Four out of the twenty genes contain introns, possible secondary structures of which are presented.
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- C Ohto
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Chikusa, 464-01, Nagoya, Japan
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Van den Eynde H, De Baere R, De Roeck E, Van de Peer Y, Vandenberghe A, Willekens P, De Wachter R. The 5S ribosomal RNA sequences of a red algal rhodoplast and a gymnosperm chloroplast. Implications for the evolution of plastids and cyanobacteria. J Mol Evol 1988; 27:126-32. [PMID: 3137350 DOI: 10.1007/bf02138372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The 5S ribosomal RNA sequences have been determined for the rhodoplast of the red alga Porphyra umbilicalis and the chloroplast of the conifer Juniperus media. The 5S RNA sequence of the Vicia faba chloroplast is corrected with respect to a previous report. A survey of the known sequences and secondary structures of 5S RNAs from plastids and cyanobacteria shows a close structural similarity between all 5S RNAs from land plant chloroplasts. The algal plastid 5S RNAs on the other hand show much more structural diversity and have certain structural features in common with bacterial 5S RNAs. A dendrogram constructed from the aligned sequences by a clustering algorithm points to a common ancestor for the present-living cyanobacteria and the land plant plastids. However, the algal plastids branch off at an early stage within the plastid-cyanobacteria cluster, before the divergence between cyanobacteria and land plant chloroplasts. This evolutionary picture points to the occurrence of multiple endosymbiotic events, with the ancestors of the present algal plastids already established as photosynthetic endosymbionts at a time when the ancestors of the present land plant chloroplasts were still free-living cells.
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- H Van den Eynde
- Departement Biochemie, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Belgium
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Markmann-Mulisch U, Subramanian AR. Nucleotide sequence and linkage map position of the genes for ribosomal proteins L14 and S8 in the maize chloroplast genome. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 170:507-14. [PMID: 2828044 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb13728.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of a 1287-base-pair segment of the maize (Zea mays) chloroplast DNA, encoding chloroplast ribosomal proteins L14, S8 and the C-terminal part of L16, has been determined using the dideoxy-chain-termination method. These data from a monocot plant are compared to the corresponding data from a dicot and a lower plant and from two bacteria. The deduced amino acid sequence of maize chloroplast L14 shows 80%, 81%, 51% and 52% and that of S8 shows 75%, 58%, 39% and 38% sequence identity, respectively, to the corresponding sequences of Nicotiana tabacum, Marchantia polymorpha, Bacillus stearothermophilus and Escherichia coli. The starting map coordinates of rpL14 and rpS8 in the physical map of the maize chloroplast DNA [Larrinua, I. M., Muskavitch, K. M. T., Gubbins, E. J. and Bogorad, L. (1983) Plant Mol. Biol. 2, 129-140] are 31.330 and 31.841. The gene order is rpL16-spacer-rpL14-spacer-rpS8. Shine-Dalgarno sequences (GGA and AGGAGG) and computer-derived stem-loop structures of dyad symmetry are present in the spacers and the 3' downstream region of rpS8, respectively, but a chloroplast promoter-like sequence could not be detected suggesting that the latter might be located further upstream in this ribosomal protein gene cluster in maize chloroplast DNA.
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Giese K, Subramanian AR, Larrinua IM, Bogorad L. Nucleotide sequence, promoter analysis, and linkage mapping of the unusually organized operon encoding ribosomal proteins S7 and S12 in maize chloroplast. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)48167-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein S12. The relationship of rat S12 to other ribosomal proteins and a correlation of the amino acid sequences of rat and yeast ribosomal proteins. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47944-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Myers A, Crivellone M, Tzagoloff A. Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. MRP1 and MRP2, two yeast nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial ribosomal proteins. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)61515-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Fleming GH, Boynton JE, Gillham NW. Cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: characterization and immunological comparisons. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1987; 206:226-37. [PMID: 3295482 DOI: 10.1007/bf00333578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Experiments were undertaken to characterize the cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins (r-proteins) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and to compare immunologically several cytoplasmic r-proteins with those of chloroplast ribosomes of this alga, Escherichia coli, and yeast. The large and small subunits of the C. reinhardtii cytoplasmic ribosomes were shown to contain, respectively, 48 and 45 r-proteins, with apparent molecular weights of 12,000-59,000. No cross-reactivity was seen between antisera made against cytoplasmic r-proteins of Chlamydomonas and chloroplast r-proteins, except in one case where an antiserum made against a large subunit r-protein cross-reacted with an r-protein of the small subunit of the chloroplast ribosome. Antisera made against one out of five small subunit r-proteins and three large subunit r-proteins recognized r-proteins from the yeast large subunit. Each of the yeast r-proteins has been previously identified as an rRNA binding protein. The antiserum to one large subunit r-protein cross-reacted with specific large subunit r-proteins from yeast and E. coli.
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Posno M, van Vliet A, Groot GS. The gene for Spirodela oligorhiza chloroplast ribosomal protein homologous to E. coli ribosomal protein L16 is split by a large intron near its 5' end: structure and expression. Nucleic Acids Res 1986; 14:3181-95. [PMID: 3010229 PMCID: PMC339741 DOI: 10.1093/nar/14.8.3181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of a Spirodela chloroplast DNA fragment, which directs the synthesis of a approximately 15 kD chloroplast ribosomal protein in an E. coli cell free system, has been determined. The deduced aminoacid sequence of the open reading frame shows extensive homology with E. coli ribosomal protein L16. Primer extension analysis, S1 nuclease mapping and nucleotide sequence analysis indicate that the chloroplast L16 gene (rpl16) is interrupted by a 1411 bp intron, which separates a short 5' exon from a large 3' exon. The shorter in vitro synthesized ribosomal protein results from an artificial initiation event at an internal ATG codon in the 3' exon. The sequences at the 5' and 3' splice sites of the intron are similar to consensus sequences described for other, class II intron containing, protein coding chloroplast genes. Northern hybridization experiments reveal 6 stable transcripts of rpl16 ranging from 500 b to greater than 4000 b. As determined by S1 nuclease mapping, the 3'-end of the smallest transcript maps exactly after the stem of a proposed termination signal. Finally, the implications of the finding of a cluster of several chloroplast ribosomal protein genes and possible polycistronic transcription of this chloroplast DNA region, are discussed in relation to the organization and expression of ribosomal protein genes found in the S10 operon of E. coli.
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Sijben-Müller G, Hallick RB, Alt J, Westhoff P, Herrmann RG. Spinach plastid genes coding for initiation factor IF-1, ribosomal protein S11 and RNA polymerase alpha-subunit. Nucleic Acids Res 1986; 14:1029-44. [PMID: 3003688 PMCID: PMC339481 DOI: 10.1093/nar/14.2.1029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of 2.5 kbp from the cloned SalI fragments 8 and 11 of spinach plastid DNA has been determined. This region was found to encode three open reading frames for hydrophilic polypeptides of 77, 138, and 335 amino acids. Using the computer search algorithm of Lipman and Pearson (Science 227, 1435, 1985), these genes were identified as coding for homologues of E. coli initiation factor IF-1 (inFA), 30S ribosomal protein S11 (rps11), and the alpha-subunit of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (rpoA). The spinach plastid gene organization is inFA - 381 bp spacer - rps11 - 72 bp spacer - rpoA. The genes are transcribed in vivo and appear to encode functional proteins. These findings imply that plastid chromosomes code for components of the organelle transcription apparatus.
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Shinozaki K, Deno H, Sugita M, Kuramitsu S, Sugiura M. Intron in the gene for the ribosomal protein S16 of tobacco chloroplast and its conserved boundary sequences. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00330508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Otaka E, Ooi T, Kumazaki T, Itoh T. Examination of protein sequence homologies: I. Eleven Escherichia coli L7/L12-type ribosomal "A" protein sequences from eubacteria and chloroplast. J Mol Evol 1985; 21:339-45. [PMID: 6443314 DOI: 10.1007/bf02115652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Seven complete and four partial sequences of Escherichia coli L7/L12-type ribosomal "A" proteins obtained from various bacteria (E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, Micrococcus lysodeikticus, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, Streptomyces griseus, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Clostridium pasteurianum, Arthrobacter glacialis, and Vibrio costicola) and spinach chloroplast have been reexamined using a computer program that searches for homologous tertiary structures. Comparison matrices for the sequences show that they match the sequence of E. coli L7 (EL7) if one assumes the insertion or deletion of certain residues at sites corresponding to residues 1, 38, 49, and 92 of EL7. That two additional insertion points are found only in the spinach chloroplast protein suggests that the chloroplast protein probably diverged from the bacterial forms. Further phylogenetic relationships among these 11 prokaryote-type "A" proteins are discussed with respect to average correlation coefficients computed, taking into account the existence of the gaps.
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Posno M, Torenvliet DJ, Lustig H, van Noort M, Groot GSP. Localization of three chloroplast ribosomal protein genes at the left junction of the large single copy region and the inverted repeat of Spirodela oligorhiza chloroplast DNA. Curr Genet 1985; 9:211-9. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00420314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/1984] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bartsch M. Correlation of chloroplast and bacterial ribosomal proteins by cross-reactions of antibodies specific to purified Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)89722-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Umesono K, Inokuchi H, Ohyama K, Ozeki H. Nucleotide sequence of Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast DNA: a region possibly encoding three tRNAs and three proteins including a homologue of E. coli ribosomal protein S14. Nucleic Acids Res 1984; 12:9551-65. [PMID: 6393057 PMCID: PMC320480 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.24.9551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of a region of Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast DNA was determined. On this DNA sequence (3.38kb), three open reading frames (ORFs) and three putative tRNA genes were detected in the following order: -ORF701-tRNASer(UGA)-ORF702-tRNAGly(GCC)-initiator tRNAMet(CAU)-ORF703-. The ORF703 is composed of 100 codons in which those for lysine (15%) and arginine (11%) are abundant, and could be accounted for as a counterpart of E. coli ribosomal protein S14 since they share 45% homology in the amino acid sequences. The ORF701 appears to code for a membrane protein, showing a periodic appearance of seven clusters of hydrophobic amino acids. Although the mechanisms remain unknown, the ORF701 causes a streptomycin-sensitive phenotype in resistant mutants of E. coli. The ORFs and tRNA genes are separated from each other by extremely AT-rich spacers containing sequences of dyad symmetry. The third letter positions of the codons in the ORFs are also rich in A and T residues.
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Amaro AM, Jerez CA. Methylation of ribosomal proteins in bacteria: evidence of conserved modification of the eubacterial 50S subunit. J Bacteriol 1984; 158:84-93. [PMID: 6425271 PMCID: PMC215383 DOI: 10.1128/jb.158.1.84-93.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Methylation of the 50S ribosomal proteins from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus subtilis, Alteromonas espejiana, and Halobacterium cutirubrum was measured after the cells were grown in the presence of [1-14C]methionine or [methyl-3H]methionine or both. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis revealed, in general, similar relative electrophoretic mobilities of the methylated proteins from each eubacterium studied. Proteins known to be structurally and functionally homologous in several microorganisms were all methylated. Thus, the following group of proteins, which appear to be involved in peptidyltransferase or in polyphenylalanine-synthesizing activity in B. stearothermophilus (P.E. Auron and S. R. Fahnestock, J. Biol. Chem. 256:10105-10110, 1981), were methylated (possible Escherichia coli methylated homologs are indicated in parentheses): BTL5(EL5), BTL6(EL3), BTL8(EL10), BTL11(EL11), BTL13(EL7L12) and BTL20b(EL16). In addition, the pentameric ribosomal complex BTL13 X BTL8, analogous to the complex EL7L12 X EL10 of E. coli, contained methylated proteins. Analysis of the methylated amino acids in the most heavily methylated proteins, BSL11 from B. subtilis and BTL11 from B. stearothermophilus, showed the presence of epsilon-N-trimethyllysine as the major methylated amino acid in both proteins, in agreement with known data for E. coli. In addition, BSL11 appeared to contain trimethylalanine, a characteristic, modified amino acid previously described only in EL11 from E. coli. These results and those previously obtained from other bacteria indicate a high degree of conservation for ribosomal protein methylation and suggest an important, albeit unknown, role for the modification of these components in eubacterial ribosomes.
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