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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:999-1007 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Mitochondrial Genome of the Colorless Green Alga Polytomella parva: Two Linear DNA Molecules with Homologous Inverted Repeat Termini

Jinshui Fan and Robert W. Lee

Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Most of the well-characterized mitochondrial genomes from diverse green algal lineages are circular mapping DNA molecules; however, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has a linear 15.8 kb unit mitochondrial genome with 580 or 581 bp inverted repeat ends. In mitochondrial-enriched fractions prepared from Polytomella parva (=P. agilis), a colorless, naturally wall-less relative of C. reinhardtii, we have detected two linear mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) components with sizes of 13.5 and 3.5 kb. Sequences spanning 97% and 86% of the 13.5- and 3.5-kb mtDNAs, respectively, reveal that these molecules contain long, at least 1.3 kb, homologous inverted repeat sequences at their termini. The 3.5-kb mtDNA has only one coding region (nad6), the functionality of which is supported by both the relative rate at which it has accumulated nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions and its absence from the 13.5-kb mtDNA which encodes nine genes (i.e., large and small subunit rRNA [LSU and SSU rRNA] genes, one tRNA gene, and six protein-coding genes). On the basis of DNA sequence data, we propose that a variant start codon, GTG, is utilized by the P. parva 13.5-kb mtDNA-encoded gene, nad5. Using the relative rate test with Chlamydomonas moewusii (=C. eugametos) as the outgroup, we conclude that the nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution rate in the mitochondrial protein-coding genes of P. parva is on an average about 3.3 times that of the C. reinhardtii counterparts.


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