Conservation of dual-targeted proteins in Arabidopsis and rice points to a similar pattern of gene-family evolution

Autor: Phellippe A. Santos Marbach, Carolina V. Morgante, Camila M. Borgonovi, Marcio C. Silva-Filho, Daniel S. Moura, Ricardo A. O. Rodrigues
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG. 281(5)
ISSN: 1617-4623
Popis: Gene duplication followed by acquisition of specific targeting information and dual targeting were evolutionary strategies enabling organelles to cope with overlapping functions. We examined the evolutionary trend of dual-targeted single-gene products in Arabidopsis and rice genomes. The number of paralogous proteins encoded by gene families and the dual-targeted orthologous proteins were analysed. The number of dual-targeted proteins and the corresponding gene-family sizes were similar in Arabidopsis and rice irrespective of genome sizes. We show that dual targeting of methionine aminopeptidase, monodehydroascorbate reductase, glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, and tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase was maintained despite occurrence of whole-genome duplications in Arabidopsis and rice as well as a polyploidization followed by a diploidization event (gene loss) in the latter.
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