title: Translation initiation factor 3 families: what are their roles in regulating cyanobacterial and chloroplast gene expression?
abstract: Initiation is a key control point for the regulation of translation in prokaryotes and prokaryotic-like translation systems such as those in plant chloroplasts. Genome sequencing and biochemical studies are increasingly demonstrating differences in many aspects of translation between well-studied microbes such as Escherichia coli and lesser studied groups such as cyanobacteria. Analyses of chloroplast translation have revealed its prokaryotic origin but also uncovered many unique aspects that do not exist in E. coli. Recently, a novel form of posttranscriptional regulation by light color was discovered in the filamentous cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon that requires a putative stem-loop and involves the use of two different prokaryotic translation initiation factor 3s (IF3s). Multiple (up to five) putative IF3s have now been found to be encoded in 22 % of sequenced cyanobacterial genomes and 26 % of plant nuclear genomes. The lack of similar light-color regulation of gene expression in most of these species suggests that IF3s play roles in regulating gene expression in response to other environmental and developmental cues. In the plant Arabidopsis, two nuclear-encoded IF3s have been shown to localize to the chloroplasts, and the mRNA levels encoding these vary significantly in certain organ and tissue types and during several phases of development. Collectively, the accumulated data suggest that in about one quarter of photosynthetic prokaryotes and eukaryotes, IF3 gene families are used to regulate gene expression in addition to their traditional roles in translation initiation. Models for how this might be accomplished in prokaryotes versus eukaryotic plastids are presented.
authors: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.|Department of Biology/Chemistry, Purdue University North Central, 1401 S. US 421, Westville, IN, 46391, USA.
authors: April D
authors: AD
authors: Nesbit
authors: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.|Department of Natural Science, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 58601, USA.
authors: Craig
authors: C
authors: Whippo
authors: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
authors: Roger P
authors: RP
authors: Hangarter
authors: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA. dkehoe@indiana.edu.|Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA. dkehoe@indiana.edu.
authors: David M
authors: DM
authors: Kehoe
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D061125:Genes, Chloroplast; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010442:Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational / Q000502:physiology; D039665:Prokaryotic Initiation Factor-3 / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D039665:Prokaryotic Initiation Factor-3
keywords: 5′ Leader; Light regulation; RNA-binding protein; Stem-loop; Transcription attenuation
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