Mitochondrial Retroprocessing Promoted Functional Transfers of rpl5 to the Nucleus in Grasses

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 34; no. 9; pp. 2340 - 2354
• Main Authors: Wu, Zhiqiang, Sloan, Daniel B., Brown, Colin W., Rosenblueth, Mónica, Palmer, Jeffrey D., Ong, Han Chuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence - genetics; Angiosperms; Cell Nucleus - genetics; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Discoveries; DNA; DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Gene conversion; Gene Conversion - genetics; Gene transfer; Genes; Genes, Mitochondrial - genetics; Genes, Plant; Genome, Mitochondrial; Grasses; Introns; Magnoliopsida - genetics; Mitochondria - genetics; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclei (cytology); Nucleotide sequence; Phylogeny; Plant Proteins - genetics; Poaceae - genetics; Pseudogenes - genetics; Ribonucleic acid; Ribosomal Proteins - genetics; RNA; RNA Editing; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Yeast; endosymbiotic gene transfer; pseudogene; intracellular gene transfer; mtDNA; reverse transcription

Functional gene transfers from the mitochondrion to the nucleus are ongoing in angiosperms and have occurred repeatedly for all 15 ribosomal protein genes, but it is not clear why some of these genes are transferred more often than others nor what the balance is between DNA- and RNA-mediated transfe...