Massive Gene Transfer and Extensive RNA Editing of a Symbiotic Dinoflagellate Plastid Genome

• Published in: Genome biology and evolution Vol. 6; no. 6; pp. 1408 - 1422
• Main Authors: Mungpakdee, Sutada, Shinzato, Chuya, Takeuchi, Takeshi, Kawashima, Takeshi, Koyanagi, Ryo, Hisata, Kanako, Tanaka, Makiko, Goto, Hiroki, Fujie, Manabu, Lin, Senjie, Satoh, Nori, Shoguchi, Eiichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Biological Evolution; Dinoflagellida - chemistry; Dinoflagellida - cytology; Dinoflagellida - genetics; Genes, Protozoan; Genome, Plastid; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Plastids - genetics; Protein Conformation; Protozoan Proteins - chemistry; Protozoan Proteins - genetics; RNA Editing; RNA, Protozoan - genetics; hydropathy; minicircles; RNA editing; light-harvesting complex proteins; dinoflagellate; plastid-associated genes; Symbiodinium minutum

Genome sequencing of Symbiodinium minutum revealed that 95 of 109 plastid-associated genes have been transferred to the nuclear genome and subsequently expanded by gene duplication. Only 14 genes remain in plastids and occur as DNA minicircles. Each minicircle (1.8–3.3 kb) contains one gene and a co...