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The availability of the Arabidopsis genome revealed the complexity of the gene families implicated in dithiol disulfide exchanges. Most non-green organisms present less dithiol oxidoreductase genes. The availability of the almost complete genome sequence of rice now allows a systematic search for thioredoxins, glutaredoxins and their reducers. This shows that all redoxin families previously defined for Arabidopsis have members in the rice genome and that all the deduced rice redoxins fall within these families. This establishes that the redoxin classification applies both to dicots and monocots. Nevertheless, within each redoxin type the number of members is not the same in these two higher plants and it is not always possible to define orthologues between rice and Arabidopsis. The sequencing of two unicellular algae (Chlamydomonas and Ostreococcus) genomes are almost finished. This allowed us to follow the origin of the different gene families in the green lineage. It appears that most thioredoxin and glutaredoxin types, their chloroplastic, mitochondrial and cytosolic reducers are always present in these unicellular organisms. Nevertheless, striking differences appear in comparison to higher plant redoxins. Some thioredoxin types are not present in these algal genomes including thioredoxins o, clot and glutaredoxins CCxC. Numerous redoxins, including the cytosolic thioredoxins, do not fit with the corresponding higher plant classification. In addition both algae present a NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase with a selenocysteine which is highly similar to the animal thioredoxin reductases, a type of thioredoxin reductase not present in higher plants.
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We would like to thank Stephane Lemaire (Orsay) for interesting discussions about redoxin genes in Chlamydomonas and Richard Cooke (Perpignan) both for discussions on comparative genomics and for correcting this manuscript.
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Meyer, Y., Riondet, C., Constans, L. et al. Evolution of redoxin genes in the green lineage. Photosynth Res 89, 179–192 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-006-9095-3
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