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Earlier, we reported that the ND1 mitochondrial gene of Podospora anserina is mosaic, containing at least three class I introns. We have now completed the sequence of the ND1 gene and have determined that it contains four class I introns of 1,820, 2,631, 2,256 and 2,597 by with the entire gene complex containing 10,505 bp, only 1,101 of which are exon sequences. Introns 1 and 3 appear to be related in that their open reading frames (ORFS) exhibit extensive amino acid sequence similarity and like the URFN sequence from Neurospora crassa have multiple sequence repetitions. Introns 2 and 4 are similar in that both appear to be mosaic introns. Where intron 2 has many short ORFS, intron 4 has two, 391 and 262 as respectively. The first ORF has some patch work sequence similarity with one of the intron 2 ORFs but the second ORF is strikingly similar to the single intron ORF in the ND1 gene of N. crassa. Just upstream of the sequences necessary to form the central core of the P. anserina intron 4 secondary structure, there is a 17 bp sequence which is an exact replica of the exon sequence abutting the 5′ flank of the 1,118 by N. crassa ND1 intron. Secondary structure analysis suggests that the 2,597 by intron 4 can fold as an entity but a similar structure can be constructed just from an 1,130 bp portion by utilizing the 17 bp element as an alternate splice site. Detailed structural analysis suggests that intron 4 (as well as the single ND1 intron from N. crassa) can utilize helical configurations which bring the downstream open reading frame into juxtaposition with the exon sequences.
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Cummings, D.J., Domenico, J.M. & Michele, F. DNA sequence and organization of the mitochondrial ND1 gene from Podospora anserina: analysis of alternate splice sites. Curr Genet 14, 253–264 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376746
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