title: Conservation and evolution of the nucleus-encoded and chloroplast-specific ribosomal proteins in pea and spinach.
abstract: Two cDNA clones have been isolated from a lambda g11 cDNA library constructed with poly(A)+ mRNAs prepared from spinach seedlings. These nuclear cDNAs encode chloroplast (cp) ribosomal (r) proteins designated L24 and L40. These r-proteins have been identified in the cp 50S r-subunit by immunoblot analysis, amino acid (aa) composition and N-terminal aa sequencing. The L24 r-protein contains a central eubacterial homologous core with the N- and C-terminal polypeptide extensions. The L40 r-protein has no homologous counterpart in bacterial ribosomes. The two nuclear encoded r-proteins have their homologues in pea, a legume, showing that specific elements of cp ribosomes are conserved in higher plants. Surprisingly, the cp-specific r-protein L40 has a higher aa substitution rate than that of other eubacterial-like cp r-proteins identified previously in pea and spinach.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carol
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mache
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D001411:Geobacillus stearothermophilus / Q000235:genetics; D006217:Halobacterium / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D051381:Rats; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins