The tryptophan biosynthetic pathway of aphid endosymbionts (Buchnera): Genetics and evolution of plasmid-associated anthranilate synthase (trpEG) within the aphididae

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 414-421

  Rouhbakhsh, Dadbeh ^a   Lai, Chi Yung ^a   Von Dohlen, Carol D ^b   Clark, Marta A ^a   Baumann, Linda ^a   Baumann, Paul ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^b   Voegtlin, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphid Buchnera aphidicola; Cospeciation; Endosymbiosis; Gene amplification Plasmid evolution; Mutualism; trpB; trpEG; Tryptophan biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; ENZYME; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

APHID; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM; RHOPALOSIPHUM MAIDIS; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM; SCHLECHTENDALIA CHINENSIS;

EID: 0029901441     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02498635     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Alexeyev MF (1995) Three kanamycin resistance gene cassettes with different polylinkers. Biotechniques 18:52-54
2. Anderson RP, Roth JR (1977) Tandem genetic duplications in phage and bacteria. Annu Rev Microbiol 31:473-505
3. Baumann P, Baumann L (1994) Growth kinetics of the endosymbiont, Buchnera aphidicola, in the aphid Schizaphis graminum. Appl Env Microbiol 60:3440-3443
4. Baumann P, Baumann L, Lai C-Y, Rouhbakhsh D, Moran NA, Clark MA (1995a). Genetics, physiology, and evolutionary relationships of the genus Buchnera: intracellular symbionts of aphids. Annu Rev Microbiol 49:55-94
5. Baumann P, Lai C-Y, Baumann L, Rouhbakhsh D, Moran NA, Clark MA (1995b) Mutualistic association of aphids and prokaryotes: biology of the genus Buchnera. Appl Environ Microbiol 61:1-7
6. Blackman RL, Eastop VF (1984) Aphids on the World's Crops. Wiley, Chichester
7. Bracho AM, Martínez-Torres D, Moya A, Latorre A (1995) Discovery and molecular characterization of a plasmid localized in Buchnera sp., bacterial endosymbiont of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi. J Mol Evol 41:67-73
8. Campbell A (1981) Evolutionary significance of accessory DNA elements in bacteria. Annu Rev Microbiol 35:55-83
9. Dadd RH (1985) Nutrition: organisms. In: Kerkut GA, Gilbert GI (eds) Comprehensive insect physiology biochemistry and pharmacology, vol. 4. Pergamon, Elmsford, pp 315-319
10. Dixon AFG (1985) Aphid ecology. Blackie, London
11. Douglas AE (1989) Mycetocyte symbiosis in insects. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 64:409-434
12. Douglas AE (1993) The nutritional quality of phloem sap utilized by natural aphid populations. Ecol Entomol 18:31-38
13. Douglas AE, Prosser WA (1992) Synthesis of the essential amino acid tryptophan in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) symbiosis. J Insect Physiol 38:565-568
14. Genetics Computer Group (1994) Program manual for the Wisconsin package, version 8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
15. Georgopoulos C (1989) The E. coli dnaA initiation protein: a protein for all seasons. Trends Genet 5:319-321
16. Harding NE, Cleary JM, Smith DW, Michon JJ, Brusilow WSA, Zyskind JW (1982) Chromosomal replication origins (oriC) of Enterobacter aerogenes and Klebsiella pneumoniae are functional in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 52:983-993
17. Houk EJ, Griffiths GW (1980) Intracellular symbiotes of the Homoptera. Annu Rev Entomol 25:161-187
18. Huang K-J, Schieberl JL, Igo MM (1994) A distant upstream site involved in the negative regulation of the Escherichia coli ompF gene. J Bacteriol 176:1309-1315
19. Ishikawa H (1989) Biochemical and molecular aspects of endosymbiosis in insects. Int Rev Cytol 116:1-45
20. 1. J Bacteriol 114:1116-1124
21. Kumar S, Tamura K, Nei M (1994) MEGA, Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis, version 1.01. Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
22. Lai CY, Baumann L, Baumann P (1994) Amplification of trpEG; adaptation of Buchnera aphidicola to an endosymbiotic association with aphids. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:3819-3823
23. Lai CY, Baumann P, Moran NA (1995) Genetics of the tryptophan biosynthetic pathway of the prokaryotic endosymbiont (Buchnera) of the aphid Schlechtendalia chinensis. Insect Mol Biol 4:47-59
24. Maloy SR, Cronan JE, Freifelder D (1994) Microbial genetics. Jones and Bartlet, Boston
25. Moran NA (1989) A 48-million-year-old aphid-host plant association and complex life cycle:biogeographic evidence. Science 245:173-175
26. Moran NA, Baumann P (1994) Phylogenetics of cytoplasmically inherited microorganisms of arthropods. Trends Ecol Evol 9:15-20
27. Moran NA, Munson MA, Baumann P, Ishikawa H (1993) A molecular clock in endosymbiotic bacteria calibrated using the insect hosts. Proc R Soc Lond [Biol] 253:167-171
28. Moran NA, von Dohlen CD, Baumann P (in press) Faster evolutionary rates in endosymbiotic bacteria than in cospeciating insect hosts. J Mol Evol 41:727-731
29. Munson MA, Baumann L, Baumann P (1993) Buchnera aphidicola (a prokaryotic endosymbiont of aphids) contains a putative 16S rRNA operon unlinked to the 23S rRNA-encoding gene: sequence determination, and promoter and terminator analysis. Gene 137:171-178
30. Munson MA, Baumann P (1993) Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of a putative trpDC(F)BA operon in Buchnera aphidicola (endosymbiont of the aphid Schizaphis graminum). J Bacteriol 175: 6426-6432
31. Rouhbakhsh D, Baumann P (1995) Characterization of a putative 23S-5S rRNA operon of Buchnera aphidicola (endosymbiont of aphids) unlinked to the 16S rRNA-encoding gene. Gene 155:107-112
32. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
33. Simon C, Frati F, Beckenbach A, Crespi B, Liu H, Flook P (1994) Evolution, weighting, and phylogenetic utility of mitochondrial gene sequences and a compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers. Ann Entomol Soc Am 87:651-701
34. Stern DL (1994) A phylogenetic analysis of soldier evolution in the aphid family Hormaphidinae. Proc R Soc Lond [Biol] 256:203-209
35. Swofford DL (1993) PAUP: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony, Version 3.1.1. Computer program distributed by the Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL
36. Takada H (1991) Gall development of Schlechtendalia chinensis (Bell) (Homoptera: Pemphigidae) on Rhus javanica L. and emergence of alatae from galls. Jpn J Appl Entomol Zool 35:71-76
37. von Dohlen CD, Moran NA (1995) Molecular phylogeny of the Homoptera: a paraphyletic taxon. J Mol Evol 41:211-223
38. Yoshikawa H, Ogasawara N (1991) Structure and function of DnaA and the DnaA-box in eubacteria: evolutionary relationships of bacterial replication origins. Mol Microbiol 5:2589-2597