RRC ID 19782
著者 Hayashi-Ishimaru Y, Ohama T, Kawatsu Y, Nakamura K, Osawa S.
タイトル UAG is a sense codon in several chlorophycean mitochondria.
ジャーナル Curr Genet
Abstract The mitochondrial genetic code of those land plants and green algae that have been examined does not deviate from the universal one. A red alga, Chondrus crispus, is the sole reported example throughout the algae that uses a deviant (non-universal) mitochondrial genetic code (UGA=Trp). We have analyzed 366-bp DNA sequences of the gene for mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COXI) from ten chlorophyceaen algae, and detected 3-8 in-frame UAG codons in the sequences of five species. Comparisons of these sequences with those of other algae and land plants have shown that most of the UAG sites in Hydrodictyon reticulatum, Pediastrum boryanum and Tetraedron bitridens correspond to alanine, and those of Coelastrum microporum and Scenedesmus quadricauda to leucine. The three species in which UAG probably codes for alanine are characterized by zoospore formation in asexual reproduction and form a clade in the COXI phylogenetic tree. The two species in which UAG codes for leucine are known to form daughter coenobia and pair in the tree. This is the first report on a deviant mitochondrial genetic code in green algae. Mutational change(s) in the release factor corresponding to UAG would be involved in these code changes. No genetic code deviation has been found in five other species examined.
巻・号 30(1)
ページ 29-33
公開日 1996-6-1
DOI 10.1007/s002940050096
PMID 8662206
MeSH Alanine / genetics Amino Acid Sequence Base Sequence Chlorophyta / classification Chlorophyta / enzymology Chlorophyta / genetics* Codon / genetics* DNA Primers / genetics Electron Transport Complex IV / chemistry Electron Transport Complex IV / genetics Leucine / genetics Mitochondria / enzymology Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny Protein Conformation Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Species Specificity
IF 3.464
引用数 39
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY
リソース情報
藻類 NIES-415 NIES-96 NIES-209 NIES-227