title: A survey of PPR proteins identifies DYW domains like those of land plant RNA editing factors in diverse eukaryotes.
abstract: The pentatricopeptide repeat modules of PPR proteins are key to their sequence-specific binding to RNAs. Gene families encoding PPR proteins are greatly expanded in land plants where hundreds of them participate in RNA maturation, mainly in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Many plant PPR proteins contain additional carboxyterminal domains and have been identified as essential factors for specific events of C-to-U RNA editing, which is abundant in the two endosymbiotic plant organelles. Among those carboxyterminal domain additions to plant PPR proteins, the so-called DYW domain is particularly interesting given its similarity to cytidine deaminases. The frequency of organelle C-to-U RNA editing and the diversity of DYW-type PPR proteins correlate well in plants and both were recently identified outside of land plants, in the protist Naegleria gruberi. Here we present a systematic survey of PPR protein genes and report on the identification of additional DYW-type PPR proteins in the protists Acanthamoeba castellanii, Malawimonas jakobiformis, and Physarum polycephalum. Moreover, DYW domains were also found in basal branches of multi-cellular lineages outside of land plants, including the alga Nitella flexilis and the rotifers Adineta ricciae and Philodina roseola. Intriguingly, the well-characterized and curious patterns of mitochondrial RNA editing in the slime mold Physarum also include examples of C-to-U changes. Finally, we identify candidate sites for mitochondrial RNA editing in Malawimonas, further supporting a link between DYW-type PPR proteins and C-to-U editing, which may have remained hitherto unnoticed in additional eukaryote lineages.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Molekulare Evolution; Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik; Universität Bonn; Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Mareike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schallenberg-Rüdinger
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Molekulare Evolution; Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik; Universität Bonn; Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lenz
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Molekulare Evolution; Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik; Universität Bonn; Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polsakiewicz
authors.affiliation: Center for RNA Molecular Biology; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH USA.
authors.forename: Jonatha M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gott
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Molekulare Evolution; Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik; Universität Bonn; Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Knoop
mesh_terms: D048248:Acanthamoeba castellanii / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019669:Embryophyta / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D056890:Eukaryota; D009253:Naegleria / Q000235:genetics; D044443:Nitella / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015388:Organelles / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D016839:Physarum polycephalum / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017393:RNA Editing; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins
keywords: RNA-binding proteins; chloroplasts; cytidine deaminase; mitochondria; pentatricopeptide repeats; protist genomes; pyrimidine conversion editing
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