Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 12, 533-545, Copyright © 1995 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
M Turmel, V Cote, C Otis, JP Mercier, MW Gray, KM Lonergan and C Lemieux
We describe here a case of homologous introns containing homologous open
reading frames (ORFs) that are inserted at the same site in the large
subunit (LSU) rRNA gene of different organelles in distantly related
organisms. We show that the chloroplast LSU rRNA gene of the green alga
Chlamydomonas pallidostigmatica contains a group I intron (CpLSU.2)
encoding a site-specific endonuclease (I-CpaI). This intron is inserted at
the identical site (corresponding to position 1931-1932 of the Escherichia
coli 23S rRNA sequence) as a group I intron (AcLSU.m1) in the mitochondrial
LSU rRNA gene of the amoeboid protozoon Acanthamoeba castellanii. The
CpLSU.2 intron displays a remarkable degree of nucleotide similarity in
both primary sequence and secondary structure to the AcLSU.m1 intron;
moreover, the Acanthamoeba intron contains an ORF in the same location
within its secondary structure as the CpLSU.2 ORF and shares with it a
strikingly high level of amino acid similarity (65%; 42% identity). A
comprehensive survey of intron distribution at site 1931 of the chloroplast
LSU rRNA gene reveals a rather restricted occurrence within the
polyphyletic genus Chlamydomonas, with no evidence of this intron among a
number of non- Chlamydomonad green algae surveyed, nor in land plants. A
parallel survey of homologues of a previously described and similar
intron/ORF pair (C. reinhardtii chloroplast CrLSU/A. castellanii
mitochondrial AcLSU.m3) also shows a restricted occurrence of this intron
(site 2593) among chloroplasts, although the intron distribution is
somewhat broader than that observed at site 1931, with site-2593 introns
appearing in several green algal branches outside of the Chlamydomonas
lineage. The available data, while not definitive, are most consistent with
a relatively recent horizontal transfer of both site-1931 and site- 2593
introns (and their contained ORFs) between the chloroplast of a
Chlamydomonas-type organism and the mitochondrion of an Acanthamoeba- like
organism, probably in the direction chloroplast to mitochondrion. The data
also suggest that both introns could have been acquired in a single event.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Evolutionary transfer of ORF-containing group I introns between different subcellular compartments (chloroplast and mitochondrion)
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