SCRAMBLING OF THE ACTIN I GENE IN 2 OXYTRICHA SPECIES

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作者
DUBOIS, M
PRESCOTT, DM
机构
[1] Dept. Molec., Cell. and Devmt. Biol., University of Colorado, Boulder
关键词
HYPOTRICHOUS CILIATES; MICRONUCLEAR DNA; MACRONUCLEAR DESTINED SEQUENCES; INTERNAL ELIMINATED SEQUENCES;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.92.9.3888
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The DNA in a germ-line nucleus (a micronucleus) undergoes extensive processing when it develops into a somatic nucleus (a macronucleus) after cell mating in hypotrichous ciliates. Processing includes destruction of a large amount of spacer DNA between genes and excision of gene-sized molecules from chromosomes. Before processing, micronuclear genes are interrupted by numerous noncoding segments called internal eliminated sequences (IESs). The IESs are excised and destroyed, and the retained macronuclear-destined sequences (MDSs) are spliced, MDSs in some micronuclear genes are not in proper order and must be reordered during processing to create functional gene-sized molecules for the macronucleus. Here we report that the micronuclear actin I gene in Oxytricha trifallax WR consists of 10 MDSs and 9 IESs compared to the previously reported 9 MDSs and 8 IESs in the: micronuclear actin I gene of Oxytricha nova, The MDSs in the actin I gene are scrambled in a similar pattern in the two species, but the positions of MDS-IES junctions are shifted by up to 14 bp for scrambled and 138 bp for the nonscrambled MDSs. The shifts in MDS-IES junctions create differences in the repeat sequences that are believed to guide MDS splicing. Also, the sizes and sequences of IESs in the micronuclear actin I genes are different in the two Oxytricha species. These observations give insight about the possible origins of IES insertion and MDS scrambling in evolution and show tile extraordinary malleability of the germ-line DNA in hypotrichs.
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页码:3888 / 3892
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