title: Higher-plant chloroplast and cytosolic 3-phosphoglycerate kinases: a case of endosymbiotic gene replacement.
abstract: Previous studies indicated that plant nuclear genes for chloroplast and cytosolic isoenzymes of 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) arose through recombination between a preexisting gene of the eukaryotic host nucleus for the cytosolic enzyme and an endosymbiont-derived gene for the chloroplast enzyme. We readdressed the evolution of eukaryotic pgk genes through isolation and characterisation of a pgk gene from the extreme halophilic, photosynthetic archaebacterium Haloarcula vallismortis and analysis of PGK sequences from the three urkingdoms. A very high calculated net negative charge of 63 for PGK from H. vallismortis was found which is suggested to result from selection for enzyme solubility in this extremely halophilic cytosol. We refute the recombination hypothesis proposed for the origin of plant PGK isoenzymes. The data indicate that the ancestral gene from which contemporary homologues for the Calvin cycle/glycolytic isoenzymes in higher plants derive was acquired by the nucleus from (endosymbiotic) eubacteria. Gene duplication subsequent to separation of Chlamydomonas and land plant lineages gave rise to the contemporary genes for chloroplast and cytosolic PGK isoenzymes in higher plants, and resulted in replacement of the preexisting gene for PGK of the eukaryotic cytosol. Evidence suggesting a eubacterial origin of plant genes for PGK via endosymbiotic gene replacement indicates that plant nuclear genomes are more highly chimaeric, i.e. contain more genes of eubacterial origin, than is generally assumed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Botanik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brinkmann
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000201:enzymology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology*; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D015723:Gene Library; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006216:Halobacteriaceae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D010735:Phosphoglycerate Kinase / Q000235:genetics*; D010944:Plants / Q000201:enzymology*; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D010735:Phosphoglycerate Kinase