scholarly journals Sequences of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplast Genes Encoding tRNASer and Ribosomal Protein L20

1992 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 1079-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weizhu Yu ◽  
Donghong Zhang ◽  
Robert J. Spreitzer
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ◽  
Chloroplast Genes ◽  
Genes Encoding

petD mRNA maturation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts: role of 5' endonucleolytic processing

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 6180-6186
Author(s):  
W Sakamoto ◽  
N R Sturm ◽  
K L Kindle ◽  
D B Stern
Keyword(s):  
Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ◽  
Fusion Gene ◽  
Deletion Mutants ◽  
Chloroplast Genes ◽  
Coding Region ◽  
Higher Plant ◽  
Glucuronidase Activity ◽  
Mrna Maturation ◽  
Processing Site ◽  
And Function

Complex processing of primary transcripts occurs during the expression of higher-plant chloroplast genes. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, most chloroplast genes appear to possess their own promoters, rather than being transcribed as part of multicistronic operons. By generating specific deletion mutants, we show that petD, which encodes subunit IV of the cytochrome b6/f complex, has an RNA processing site that is required for accumulation of monocistronic petD mRNA in petD promoter deletion mutants; in such mutants, transcription of petD originates from the upstream petA promoter. The 5' ends of transcripts initiated at the petD promoter are probably also generated by processing, since the 5' end of monocistronic petD mRNA is the same in wild-type strains as it is in the petD promoter mutants. The location and function of the processing site were further examined by inserting petD-uidA fusion genes into the chloroplast genome (uidA is an Escherichia coli gene that encodes beta-glucuronidase). When a promoterless petD-uidA fusion gene was inserted downstream of petA, a monocistronic uidA transcript accumulated, which was apparently initiated at the petA promoter and was processed at a site corresponding precisely to the petD mRNA 5' end. When a construct including only sequences downstream of +25 relative to the mature mRNA 5' end was inserted into the same site, a dicistronic petA-uidA transcript accumulated but no monocistronic uidA transcript could be detected, suggesting that a processing site lies at least partially within the region from -1 to +25. Beta-glucuronidase activity was not detected in transformants that accumulated only the dicistronic petA-uidA transcript, suggesting that the first 25 bp of the 5' untranslated region are required for translation initiation. One explanation for this translational defect is that Chlamydomonas chloroplasts cannot translate the second coding region of some dicistronic messages.

scholarly journals The 40S Ribosomal Protein S6 Response to Blue Light by Interaction with SjAUREO in Saccharina japonica

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hexiang Luan ◽  
Jianting Yao ◽  
Zhihang Chen ◽  
Delin Duan
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Cdna Library ◽  
Blue Light ◽  
Cell Cycle Progression ◽  
Saccharina Japonica ◽  
Cdna Libraries ◽  
Cellular Division ◽  
Cycle Progression ◽  
Ribosomal Protein S6 ◽  
Genes Encoding

Blue light (BL) plays an important role in regulation of the growth and development of aquatic plants and land plants. Aureochrome (AUREO), the recent BL photoreceptor identified in photosynthetic stramenopile algae, is involved in the photomorphogenesis and early development of Saccharina japonica porophytes (kelp). However the factors that interact with the SjAUREO under BL conditions specifically are not clear. Here in our study, three high quality cDNA libraries with CFU over 5 × 106 and a recombination rate of 100% were constructed respectively through white light (WL), BL and darkness (DK) treatments to the juvenile sporophytes. Based on the constructed cDNA libraries, the interactors of SjAUREO were screened and analyzed. There are eighty-four genes encoding the sixteen predicted proteins from the BL cDNA library, sixty-eight genes encoding eighteen predicted proteins from the DK cDNA library, and seventy-four genes encoding nineteen proteins from the WL cDNA library. All the predicted proteins are presumed to interact with SjAUREO when co-expressed with SjAUREO seperately. The 40S ribosomal protein S6 (RPS6), which only exists in the BL treated cDNA library except for two other libraries, and which is essential for cell proliferation and is involved in cell cycle progression, was selected for detailed analysis. We showed that its transcription was up-regulated by BL, and was highly transcribed in the basal blade (meristem region) of juvenile sporophytes but less in the distal part. Taken together, our results indicated that RPS6 was highly involved in BL-mediated kelp cellular division and photomorphogenesis by interacting with SjAUREO.

scholarly journals Overexpression of chloroplast-targeted ferrochelatase 1 results in a genomes uncoupled chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling phenotype

2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1801) ◽  
pp. 20190401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike T. Page ◽  
Tania Garcia-Becerra ◽  
Alison G. Smith ◽  
Matthew J. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Feedback Inhibition ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Signalling Pathway ◽  
Chloroplast Genes ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Retrograde Signalling ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Retrograde Signal

Chloroplast development requires communication between the progenitor plastids and the nucleus, where most of the genes encoding chloroplast proteins reside. Retrograde signals from the chloroplast to the nucleus control the expression of many of these genes, but the signalling pathway is poorly understood. Tetrapyrroles have been strongly implicated as mediators of this signal with the current hypothesis being that haem produced by the activity of ferrochelatase 1 (FC1) is required to promote nuclear gene expression. We have tested this hypothesis by overexpressing FC1 and specifically targeting it to either chloroplasts or mitochondria, two possible locations for this enzyme. Our results show that targeting of FC1 to chloroplasts results in increased expression of the nuclear-encoded chloroplast genes GUN4 , CA1 , HEMA1 , LHCB2.1, CHLH after treatment with Norflurazon (NF) and that this increase correlates to FC1 gene expression and haem production measured by feedback inhibition of protochlorophyllide synthesis. Targeting FC1 to mitochondria did not enhance the expression of nuclear-encoded chloroplast genes after NF treatment. The overexpression of FC1 also increased nuclear gene expression in the absence of NF treatment, demonstrating that this pathway is operational in the absence of a stress treatment. Our results therefore support the hypothesis that haem synthesis is a promotive chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signal. However, not all FC1 overexpression lines enhanced nuclear gene expression, suggesting there is still a lot we do not understand about the role of FC1 in this signalling pathway. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Retrograde signalling from endosymbiotic organelles’.

scholarly journals Trehalose-6-phosphate links singlet oxygen-induced signalling with metabolic signalling in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waeil Al Youssef ◽  
Regina Feil ◽  
Maureen Saint-Sorny ◽  
Xenie Johnson ◽  
John E. Lunn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Singlet Oxygen ◽  
Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ◽  
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle ◽  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Tca Cycle ◽  
Tricarboxylic Acid ◽  
Metabolic Signalling ◽  
Retrograde Signalling ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Genes Encoding

Singlet oxygen (1O2) induces retrograde signalling in chloroplasts. Using a novel mutant screen, we identified a mutation in the TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE 1 (T6PP1) gene that results in accumulation of trehalose 6-phosphate, a reprogramming of cell metabolism, and impairment of 1O2-induced retrograde signalling in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. From transcriptomic analysis and metabolite profiling, we conclude that accumulation or deficiency of certain metabolites directly affect 1O2-signalling. 1O2-inducible GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 5 (GPX5) gene expression is suppressed by increased content of fumarate, an intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) in mitochondria and dicarboxylate metabolism in the cytosol, while it is promoted by another TCA cycle intermediate, aconitate. Furthermore, genes encoding known essential components of chloroplast-to-nucleus 1O2-signalling show decreased transcript levels in a t6pp1 mutant, which can be rescued by exogenous application of aconitate. We demonstrate that chloroplast retrograde signalling involving 1O2 depends on mitochondrial and cytosolic processes and that the metabolic status of the cell determines the response to 1O2.

scholarly journals Drosophila ribosomal protein S5b is essential for oogenesis and interacts with distinct RNAs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Kong ◽  
Hong Han ◽  
Julie Bergalet ◽  
Louis Philip Benoit Bouvrette ◽  
Greco Hernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Protein ◽  
Developmental Defects ◽  
Mitochondrial Fractions ◽  
Rna Targeting ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Germline Expression ◽  
Egg Chambers ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Large Clusters ◽  
Interfering Rna

AbstractIn Drosophila melanogaster there are two genes encoding ribosomal protein S5, RpS5a and RpS5b. Here, we demonstrate that RpS5b is required for oogenesis. Females lacking RpS5b produce ovaries with numerous developmental defects that undergo widespread apoptosis in mid-oogenesis. Females lacking germline RpS5a are fully fertile, but germline expression of interfering RNA targeting germline RpS5a in an RpS5b mutant background worsened the RpS5b phenotype and blocked oogenesis before egg chambers form. A broad spectrum of mRNAs co-purified in immunoprecipitations with RpS5a, while RpS5b-associated mRNAs were specifically enriched for GO terms related to mitochondrial electron transport and cellular metabolic processes. Consistent with this, RpS5b mitochondrial fractions are depleted for proteins linked to oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial respiration, and RpS5b mitochondria tended to form large clusters and had more heterogeneous morphology than those from controls. We conclude that RpS5b-containing ribosomes preferentially associate with particular mRNAs and serve an essential function in oogenesis.

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