Phylogeny and expression of the secA gene from a chromaphytic alga implications for the evolution of plastids and sec-dependent protein translocation

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 300-307

  Valentin, Klaus ^a  

^a Institute of Physiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterosigma carterae Olisthodiscus luteus; Plastid evolution; Protein transport; Sec apparatus; secA; secY; Thylakoid

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ALGA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ALGAE; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; HETEROSIGMA CARTERAE; OLISTHODISCUS LUTEUS;

EID: 0030711657     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050281     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Berghofer J, Karnauchov I, Herrmann RG, Kloesgen RB (1995) Isolation of a cDNA encoding the SecA protein from spinach chloroplasts. Evidence for azide resistance of Sec-dependent protein translocation across thylakoid membranes. J Biol Chem 270:18341-18346
2. Davis LC, Dibner MD, Battey JF (1986) Basic methods in molecular biology. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam
3. Harlow E, Lane D (1988) Antibodies: a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor. New York
4. Higgins DG, Bleasby AJ, Fuchs R (1992) CLUSTAL V: Improved software for multiple sequence alignments. Comp Anal Biol Sci (CABIOS) 8:189-191
5. Laidler V, Chaddock AM, Knott TG, Walker D, Robinson C (1995) A secY homolog in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sequence of a full-length cDNA clone and import of the precursor into chloroplasts. J Biol Chem 270:17664-17667
6. Laudenbach DE, Grossmann AR (1991) Characterization of sulfur-regulated genes in a cyanobacterium: evidence for function in sulfate transport. J Bacteriol 173:2739-2750
7. Leipe DD, Wainright PO, Gunderson JH, Porter D, Patterson DJ, Vlois F, Himmerich S, Sogin ML (1994) The stramenopiles from a molecular perspective: 16s-like rRNA sequences from Labyrinthuloides minuta and Cafeteria roenbergensis. Phycologia 33:369-377
8. Nakai M, Goto A, Nohara T, Sugita D, Endo T (1994) Identification of the SecA protein homolog in pea chloroplasts and its possible involvement in thylakoid protein transport. J Biol Chem 269:31338-31341
9. Nikaido H, Reid J (1990) Biogenesis of procaryotic pores. Experimentia 46:174-180
10. Nohara T, Nakai M, Goto A, Endo T (1995) Isolation and characterization of the cDNA for pea chloroplast SecA. Evolutionary conservation of the bacterial-type SecA-dependent protein transport within chloroplasts. FEBS Lett 364:305-308
11. Ohyama K, Fukuzawa H, Kochi T, Shirai H, Sano T, Sano S, Umesono K, Shiki Y, Takeushi M, Chang Z, Aota SI, Inukuchi H, Ozeki H (1985) Chloroplast gene organization deduced from the complete sequence of liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, chloroplast DNA. Nature 322:572-574
12. Reith M, Cattolico RA (1985) In vitro chloroplast protein synthesis by the chromophytic alga Qlisthodiscus luteus. Biochemistry 24:2550-2556
13. Reith M, Munholland J (1993) A high-resolution gene map of the chloroplast genome of the red alga Porphyra purpurea. The Plant Cell 5:465-475
14. Reynolds A, McConaughy B, Cattolico RA (1993) Chloroplast genes of the marine alga Heterosigma carterae are transcriptionally regulated during a light/dark cycle. Mol Marine Biol Biotech 2:121-128
15. Schatz PJ, Beckwith J (1990) Genetic analysis of protein export in Escherichia coli. Annu Rev Genet 24:215-248
16. Tietze A (1996) Molekulare Charakterisierung der rRNA und atp-Gencluster auf dem Plastiden-Genom von Ochrosphaera neapolitana. Inaugural Dissertation, Erlangen/Nuernberg
17. Valentin K (1993) SecA is plastid-encoded in a red alga:implications for the evolution of plastid genomes and the thylakoid protein import apparatus. Mol Gen Genet 236:245-250
18. Valentin K, Zetsche K (1990) Rubisco genes indicate a close phylogenetic relation between the plastids of chromophyta and rhodophyta. Plant Mol Biol 15:575-548
19. Valentin K, Cattolica RA, Zetsche K (1992) Phylogenetic origin of the plastids. In: Lewin RA (ed) Origins of plastids. Chapman and Hall, New York London, pp 193-221
20. Vogel H, Fischer S, Valentin K (1996) A model for the evolution of the plastid sec apparatus inferred from secY gene phylogeny. Plant Mol Biol 32:685-692
21. Wickner W, Driessen AJM, Hartl FU (1991) The enzy mology of protein translocation across the Excherichia coli plasma membrane. Annu Rev Biochem 60:101-124
22. Wolfe KH, Li WH, Sharp PM (1987) Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84:9054-9058
23. Yuan J, Henry R, McCaffery M, Cline K (1994) SecA homolog in protein transport within chloroplasts; evidence for endosymbiont-derived sorting. Science 266:796-798