Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 13, 873-882, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
CF Delwiche and JD Palmer
Previous work has shown that molecular phylogenies of plastids,
cyanobacteria, and proteobacteria based on the rubisco (ribulose-1,5-
bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) genes rbcL and rbcS are incongruent
with molecular phylogenies based on other genes and are also incompatible
with structural and biochemical information. Although it has been much
speculated that this is the consequence of a single horizontal gene
transfer (of a proteobacterial or mitochondrial rubisco operon into
plastids of rhodophytic and chromophytic algae), neither this hypothesis
nor the alternative hypothesis of ancient gene duplication have been
examined in detail. We have conducted phylogenetic analyses of all
available bacterial rbcL sequences, and representative plastid sequences,
in order to explore these alternative hypothesis and fully examine the
complexity of rubisco gene evolution. The rbcL phylogeny reveals a
surprising number of gene relationships that are fundamentally incongruent
with organismal relationships as inferred from multiple lines of other
molecular evidence. On the order of six horizontal gene transfers are
implied by the form I (L8S8) rbcL phylogeny, two between cyanobacteria and
proteobacteria, one between proteobacteria and plastids, and three within
proteobacteria. Alternatively, a single ancient duplication of the form I
rubisco operon, followed by repeated and pervasive differential loss of one
operon or the other, would account for much of this incongruity. In all
probability, the rubisco operon has undergone multiple events of both
horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication in different lineages.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Rampant horizontal transfer and duplication of rubisco genes in eubacteria and plastids
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. delwiche@bio.indiana.edu
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