A small spliceosomal-type intron occurs in a ribosomal protein gene of the microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-286

  Biderre, Corinne ^a   Méténier, Guy ^a   Vivarès, Christian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; L27a ribosomal protein; Microsporidia; Spliceosomal intron

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; INTRON; MICROSPORA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLICEOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032145203     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00064-4     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Ishihara R, Hayashi Y Some properties of ribosomes from sporoplasm of Nosema bombycis. J Invertebr Pathol. 11:1968;377-385.
2. Curgy JJ, Vavra J, Vivarès CP. Presence of ribosomal RNAs with prokaryotic properties in Microsporida, eukaryotic organisms. Biol Cell. 38:1980;49-52.
3. Vossbrinck CR, Woese CR. Eukaryotic ribosomes that lack a 5.8S RNA. Nature. 320:1986;287-288.
4. Vossbrinck CR, Maddox JV, Friedman S, Debrunner-Vossbrinck BA, Woese CR. Ribosomal RNA sequence suggests microsporidia are extremely ancient eukaryotes. Nature. 326:1987;411-414.
5. Kamaishi T, Hashimoto T, Nakamura Y, Masuda Y, Nakamura F, Okamoto KI, Shimizu M., Hasegawa M. Complete nucleotide sequences of the genes encoding translation elongation factors 1α and 2 from a microsporidian parasite, Glugea plecoglossi: implications for the deepest branching of eukaryotes. J Biochem. 120:1996;1095-1103.
6. Biderre C, Pagès M, Méténier G, David D, Bata J, Prensier G, Vivarès CP. On small genomes in eukaryotic organisms: molecular karyotypes of two microsporidian species (Protozoa) parasites of vertebrates. CR Acad Sci Paris. 317:1994;399-404.
7. Biderre C, Pagès M, Méténier G, Canning EU, Vivarès CP. Evidence for the smallest nuclear genome (2.9 Mb) in the microsporidium Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 74:1995;229-231.
8. Biderre C, Duffieux F, Peyretaillade E, Glaser P, Peyret P, Danchin A, Pagès M, Méténier G, Vivarès CP. Mapping of repetitive and non-repetitive DNA probes to chromosomes of the microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Gene. 191:1997;39-45.
9. Kreader CA, Heckman JE. Isolation and characterization of a Neurospora crassa ribosomal protein gene homologous to CYH2 of yeast. Nucleic Acids Res. 1015:1987;9027-9042.
10. Russell CB, Fraga D, Hinrichsen RD. Extremely short 20-33 nucleotide introns are the standard length in Paramecium tetraurelia. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:1994;1221-1225.
11. Gilson PR, McFadden GI. The miniaturized nuclear genome of a eukaryotic endosymbiont contains genes that overlap, genes that are cotranscribed, and the smallest known spliceosomal introns. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 93:1996;7737-7742.
12. DiMaria P, Palic B, Debrunner-Vossbrinck BA, Lapp J, Vossbrinck CR. Characterization of the highly divergent U2 RNA homolog in the microsporidian Vairimorpha necatrix. Nucleic Acids Res. 24:1996;515-522.
13. Edlind TD, Li J, Visvesvara GS, Vodkin MH, McLaughlin GL, Katiyar SK. Phylogenetic analysis of β-tubulin sequences from amitochondrial protozoa. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 5:1996;359-367.
14. Yamauchi K. The sequence flanking translational initiation site in protozoa. Nucleic Acids Res. 19:1991;2715-2720.
15. Katiyar SK, Visvesvara GS, Edlind TD. Comparisons of ribosomal RNA sequences from amitochondrial protozoa: implications for processing, mRNA binding and paromomycin susceptibility. Gene. 152:1995;27-33.
16. Sprengart ML, Fuchs E, Porter AG. The downstream box: an efficient and independent translation initiation signal in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 15:1996;665-674.
17. Garwood J, Lepesant JA. The Drosophila melanogaster homolog of ribosomal protein L27a. Biochem Biophys Res Com. 198:1994;748-754.
18. Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ. Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol. 215:1990;403-410.
19. Kyrpides NC, Woese CR, Ouzounis CA. KOW: a novel motif linking a bacterial transcription factor with ribosomal proteins. Trends Biochem Sci. 21:1996;425-426.
20. Underwood MR, Fried HM. Characterization of nuclear localizing sequences derived from yeast ribosomal protein L29. EMBO J. 9:1990;91-99.
21. Lee JC, Henry B, Yeh Y. Binding of proteins from the large subunits to 5.8S rRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem. 258:1983;854-858.
22. Germot A, Philippe H, Le Guyader H. Evidence for the loss of mitochondria from a mitochondrial-type HSP70 in Nosema locustae. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 87:1997;159-168.
23. Peyretaillade E, Broussolle V, Peyret P, Méténier G, Gouy M, Vivarès, CP. Microsporidia, amitochondrial protists, possess a 70-kDa heat-shock protein gene of mitochondrial evolutionary origin. Mol Biol Evol (in press).
24. Roger A, Doolittle WF. Why introns-in-pieces? Nature. 364:1993;289-290.