A nucleus-encoded maize protein with sigma factor activity accumulates in mitochondria and chloroplasts
| Autor: | Pankaj Jaiswal, Thomas A. Beardslee, Silva Lerbs-Mache, Laurence Buhot, David B. Stern, Lori A. Allison, Sanchita Roy-Chowdhury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Chloroplasts
Transcription Genetic Sigma Factor Plant Science Biology Genes Plant Zea mays Antibodies Substrate Specificity chemistry.chemical_compound Gene Expression Regulation Plant Transcription (biology) Sigma factor Terminology as Topic RNA polymerase Gene expression Escherichia coli Genetics medicine Amino Acid Sequence Plastid Promoter Regions Genetic Plant Proteins Cell Nucleus fungi DNA Chloroplast food and beverages Sigma factor activity DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases Cell Biology Molecular biology Mitochondria Chloroplast Protein Transport Cell nucleus medicine.anatomical_structure Biochemistry chemistry |
| Zdroj: | The Plant Journal. 31:199-209 |
| ISSN: | 1365-313X 0960-7412 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2002.01344.x |
| Popis: | Summary Plants contain nuclear gene families that encode proteins related to the principal sigma factors of eubacteria. As sigma factors function in transcription, the plant proteins have been presumed or demonstrated to associate with the eubacteria-like RNA polymerase of chloroplasts. In maize, five sig cDNA sequences have been reported, and four of the products are present in plastids as predicted. However, in vitro chloroplast import assays and computer algorithms gave ambiguous results with the fifth protein, ZmSig2B. Unlike the other maize sigma factors, ZmSig2B is expressed throughout developing seedling leaves, as well as in roots and etiolated tissues. To determine the subcellular location of ZmSig2B, we have now used immunoblot assays to show that it co-purifies with both mitochondria and plastids. Its NH2-terminal 153 amino acids, translationally fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP), targeted GFP to chloroplasts and mitochondria in bombarded maize leaves. A putative role for ZmSig2B in mitochondrial transcription is supported by its presence in a maize mitochondrial transcription extract. ZmSig2B also exhibits the expected properties of a chloroplast sigma factor: recombinant ZmSig2B binds to a chloroplast promoter and initiates transcription in vitro when combined with Escherichia coli core RNA polymerase. Therefore ZmSig2B is an unusual nucleus-encoded sigma factor that appears to function in both chloroplasts and mitochondria. |
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