ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2006
Mitochondrial genome dynamics in plants and animals: convergent gene fusions of a MutS homologue.
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- Disruption of recombination machinery alters the mutational landscape in plant organellar genomes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Identification, cloning and characterization of AcMSH1 from Onion (Allium cepa L.).Molecular biology reports · 2023Article
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- Altered collective mitochondrial dynamics in the Arabidopsis msh1 mutant compromising organelle DNA maintenance.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Article
- Complete mitochondrial genome sequence and comparative analysis of the cultivated yellow nutsedge.The plant genome · 2022Article
- Did doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mtDNA originate as a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2022Article
- The Development of Mitochondrial Gene Editing Tools and Their Possible Roles in Crop Improvement for Future Agriculture.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Review
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- Multiple Losses of MSH1, Gain of mtMutS, and Other Changes in the MutS Family of DNA Repair Proteins in Animals.Genome biology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Segregation of an MSH1 RNAi transgene produces heritable non-genetic memory in association with methylome reprogramming.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Mitochondrial DNA Repair in anPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Mitochondrial processes influence a broad spectrum of physiological and developmental events in higher eukaryotes, and their aberrant function can lead to several familiar disease phenotypes in mammals. In plants, mitochondrial genes directly influence pollen development and the occurrence of male sterility in natural plant populations. Likewise, in animal systems evidence accumulates to suggest important mitochondrial functions in spermatogenesis and reproduction. Here we present evidence for a convergent gene fusion involving a MutS-homologous gene functioning within the mitochondrion and designated Msh1. In only plants and soft corals, the MutS homologue has fused with a homing endonuclease sequence at the carboxy terminus of the protein. However, the endonuclease domains in the plants and the soft corals are members of different groups. In plants, Msh1 can influence mitochondrial genome organization and male sterility expression. Based on parallels in Msh1 gene structure shared by plants and corals, and their similarities in reproductive behavior, we postulate that this convergent gene fusion might have occurred in response to coincident adaptive pressures on reproduction.
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