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- Title
Rampant Nuclear Transfer and Substitutions of Plastid Genes in Passiflora.
- Authors
Shrestha, Bikash; Gilbert, Lawrence E; Ruhlman, Tracey A; Jansen, Robert K
- Abstract
Gene losses in plastid genomes (plastomes) are often accompanied by functional transfer to the nucleus or substitution of an alternative nuclear-encoded gene. Despite the highly conserved gene content in plastomes of photosynthetic land plants, recent gene loss events have been documented in several disparate angiosperm clades. Among these lineages, Passiflora lacks several essential ribosomal genes, rps7 , rps16 , rpl20 , rpl22 , and rpl32 , the two largest plastid genes, ycf1 and ycf2 , and has a highly divergent rpoA. Comparative transcriptome analyses were performed to determine the fate of the missing genes in Passiflora. Putative functional transfers of rps7 , rpl22 , and rpl32 to nucleus were detected, with the nuclear transfer of rps7 , representing a novel event in angiosperms. Plastid-encoded rps7 was transferred into the intron of a nuclear-encoded plastid-targeted thioredoxin m-type gene, acquiring its plastid transit peptide (TP). Plastid rpl20 likely experienced a novel substitution by a duplicated, nuclear-encoded mitochondrial-targeted rpl20 that has a similar gene structure. Additionally, among rosids, evidence for a third independent transfer of rpl22 in Passiflora was detected that gained a TP from a nuclear gene containing an organelle RNA recognition motif. Nuclear transcripts representing rpoA , ycf1 , and ycf2 were not detected. Further analyses suggest that the divergent rpoA remains functional and that the gene is under positive or purifying selection in different clades. Comparative analyses indicate that alternative translocon and motor protein complexes may have substituted for the loss of ycf1 and ycf2 in Passiflora.
- Subjects
PASSIFLORA; MOLECULAR motor proteins; GENES; RNA polymerases
- Publication
Genome Biology & Evolution, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 8, p1313
- ISSN
1759-6653
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/gbe/evaa123