Nuclear-encoded chloroplast ribosomal protein L27 of Nicotiana tabacum: cDNA sequence and analysis of mRNA and genes.
Nuclear-encoded chloroplast ribosomal protein L27 of Nicotiana tabacum: cDNA sequence and analysis of mRNA and genes.
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烟草核编码叶绿体核糖体蛋白 L27:cDNA 序列以及 mRNA 和基因分析。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00144a028
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发表时间:
1992
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Bourque,DP
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作者:
Elhag,GA;Bourque,DP
Revised Manuscript Received April 27, 1992 abstract: A tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Petite Havana) leaf cDNA library was constructed in the expression vector Xgtl 1. Immunological and nucleic acid hybridization screening yielded several cDNAs encoding an Mr 19 641 precursor to an M, 14 420 mature protein which is homologous to Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L27. One cDNA (L27-1; 882 nucleotides long) contains 104 bp of 5'-noncoding sequence, 51 codons for a transit peptide, 128 codons for the predicted mature L27 polypeptide, and 241 bp of 3'-noncoding sequence, including the poly (A) 29 tail, A/3-galactosidase-L27 fusion protein was bound to nitrocellulose filters, expressed, and used as an affinity matrix to purify monospecific antibody to L27 protein from an antiserum of rabbits immunized with 50S chloroplast ribosomal proteins. Using this monospecific antibody, protein L27 was identified among HPLC-purified tobacco chloroplast ribosome 50S subunit proteins. The predicted amino terminus of the mature L27 protein was confirmed by partial sequencing of the HPLC-purified L27 protein. The mature L27 protein has 66%, 61%, 56%, and 48% amino acid sequence identity with the L27-type ribosomal proteins of Bacillus subtilis, E. coli, Bacillus stearo-thermophilus, and yeast mitochondria (MRP7), respectively, in the homologous overlapping regions. The transit peptide of tobacco chloroplast ribosomal protein L27 has 41% amino acid sequence similarity with the MRP7 mitochondrial targeting sequence. Tobacco chloroplast L27 protein also has a 40 amino acid long carboxyl-terminal extension (compared to its bacterial counterparts) which is similar to the corre-sponding portion of yeast MRP7. The carboxyl end of tobacco L27 has an unusual cysteine-rich sequence (CFCCC) of unknown function. Northern blot analysis revealed a single band of mRNA corresponding in size (0.85-0.90 kb) to full-length L27 cDNAs. Two cDNAs for tobacco ribosomal protein L27 were identical in coding sequence, but differed in 3'-noncoding sequence. Hybridization of L27 cDNA probes to restriction enzyme digests of tobacco genomic DNA and to cloned genomic fragments provided additional evidence suggesting that more than one gene exists for tobacco L27.Ribosomes are protein-synthesizing organelles found in all cells. Thestructure and function of bacterial ribosomes have been intensively studied (Lindahl& Zengel, 1986; Gourse et al., 1986). Recent studies have begun to reveal details about the structure and function of eucaryotic ribosomes (Planta et al., 1986; Warner et al „1986; Wool et al., 1990; Amaldi et al., 1989; Subramanian et al., 1990). In contrast to bacteria, plant cells maintain multiple, distinctly different types of ri-bosomes in the cytoplasm, chloroplast, and mitochondrion (Boynton et al., 1980). These three protein-synthesizing systems differ in the mass and density of their ribosomal subunits, the number of their component proteins, and the size and degree of sequence homology of the rRNA of large and small ribosomal subunits (Boynton et al., 1980; Capel & Bourque, 1982; Bonham-Smith & Bourque, 1990). The genes encoding chloroplast ribosomal proteins are distributed between the chloroplast and nuclear genomes. Twenty-one ribosomal protein genes occur in chloroplast ge-nomes of tobacco (Shinozaki et al., 1986; Yokoi et al., 1990), rice (Hiratsuka et al., 1989), and the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha (Ohyama et al., 1986). Each of these chloroplast genomescodes for an identical complement of riboso-