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Mitochondria, Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes in Relation to the CoRR Hypothesis for Genome Function and Evolution

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Why do just a few genes remain within mitochondria and chloroplasts as vestiges of ancestral, bacterial genomes? One proposal is that mitochondrial and chloroplast genes must remain in the same cellular compartment as their gene products in order for their expression to be subject to redox regulatory control – the CoRR hypothesis for the function of cytoplasmic genomes. Predictions of the CoRR hypothesis have been examined experimentally for chloroplasts, where results are consistent with theory. For mitochondria, the same logic applies, because the CoRR hypothesis applies equally to both types of bioenergetic organelle. However, experimental evidence from mitochondria currently lags behind that available from investigations of chloroplasts. Nevertheless, mitochondria perhaps provide a better-characterised diversity of form and function than chloroplasts, with hydrogenosomes and mitosomes as examples of relict mitochondria. In these cases, loss of oxidative phosphorylation has clearly been accompanied by loss of the localised genetic system, which underpins it. This pattern is unexplained by considerations of hydrophobicity of gene products. Relict mitochondria can, instead, be understood in terms of CoRR – genes in bioenergetic organelles are retained in order to be subject to regulatory control by the redox state of their corresponding gene products.

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de Paula, W.B.M., Allen, J.F., van der Giezen, M. (2012). Mitochondria, Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes in Relation to the CoRR Hypothesis for Genome Function and Evolution. In: Bullerwell, C. (eds) Organelle Genetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22380-8_5

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