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Evolution of the Organellar Transcription Machinery in Bryophytes and Vascular Plants

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New Frontiers in Bryology

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Plastids are semi-autonomous organelles which possesses their own genetic information. It is generally accepted that plastid arose from a eubacteria-like endosymbiont, closely related to extant cyanobacteria. However, the origin of various DNA-binding proteins and transcription factors in the plastid nucleoid appear complex. Biochemical analysis of these proteins, as well as comparative genome informatics, suggest that proteins of eukaryotic origin replaced most of the original prokaryotic proteins during the evolution of plastids in the lineage of green plants. In addition, nuclear-encoded phage-type RNA polymerase (RPOT), which functions in mitochondria, was recruited, after gene duplication, to the plastids. The creation of nuclear-encoded plastid RNA polymerase (called NEP), as well as the use of NEP in the transcription of certain housekeeping genes of the plastid genome, is a recent event possibly during the evolution of angiosperms. However, each of the two RPOT proteins in a moss Physcomitrella patens possesses a potential plastid targeting sequence, which is not translated in vivo. Possible roles of the RPOTs in the organelles of the moss are discussed.

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Kabeya, Y., Sekine, K., Sato, N. (2004). Evolution of the Organellar Transcription Machinery in Bryophytes and Vascular Plants. In: Wood, A.J., Oliver, M.J., Cove, D.J. (eds) New Frontiers in Bryology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48568-8_6

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