Identification of highly-disrupted tRNA genes in nuclear genome of the red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

Akiko Soma, Junichi Sugahara, Akinori Onodera, Nozomu Yachie, Akio Kanai, Satoru Watanabe, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Mio Ohnuma, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Yasuhiko Sekine

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The limited locations of tRNA introns are crucial for eukaryal tRNA-splicing endonuclease recognition. However, our analysis of the nuclear genome of an early-diverged red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae, demonstrated the first evidence of nuclear-encoded tRNA genes that contain ectopic and/or multiple introns. Some genes exhibited both intronic and permuted structures in which the 39-half of the tRNA coding sequence lies upstream of the 59-half, and an intron is inserted into either half. These highly disrupted tRNA genes, which account for 63% of all nuclear tRNA genes, are expressed via the orderly and sequential processing of bulge-helix-bulge (BHB) motifs at intron-exon junctions and termini of permuted tRNA precursors, probably by a C. merolae tRNA-splicing endonuclease with an unidentified subunit architecture. The results revealed a considerable diversity in eukaryal tRNA intron properties and endonuclease architectures, which will help to elucidate the acquisition mechanism of the BHB-mediated disrupted tRNA genes.

本文言語English
論文番号2321
ジャーナルScientific reports
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出版ステータスPublished - 2013

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