ArticleNucleic acids research1994
Characterization of the unique intron-exon junctions of Euglena gene(s) encoding the polyprotein precursor to the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding protein of photosystem II.
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- Structural basis of diadinoxanthin-Chl a/b-binding proteins in the photosystem I supercomplex ofScience advances · 2026Article
- Splice site diversity and abundance of noncanonical introns in diplonemids (Diplonemea, Euglenozoa).RNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- First finding of free-living representatives of Prokinetoplastina and their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Order of removal of conventional and nonconventional introns from nuclear transcripts of Euglena gracilis.PLoS genetics · 2018Article
- Intermediate introns in nuclear genes of euglenids - are they a distinct type?BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Distribution of conventional and nonconventional introns in tubulin (α and β) genes of euglenids.Molecular biology and evolution · 2014Article
- A possible role for short introns in the acquisition of stroma-targeting peptides in the flagellate Euglena gracilis.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2010Article
- Analysis of Euglena gracilis plastid-targeted proteins reveals different classes of transit sequences.Eukaryotic cell · 2006Article
- A high density of ancient spliceosomal introns in oxymonad excavates.BMC evolutionary biology · 2006Article
- Spliceosomal introns in the deep-branching eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2005Article
- Unusual features of fibrillarin cDNA and gene structure in Euglena gracilis: evolutionary conservation of core proteins and structural predictions for methylation-guide box C/D snoRNPs throughout the domain Eucarya.Nucleic acids research · 2005Article
- U1 small nuclear RNA and spliceosomal introns in Euglena gracilis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1999Article
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Abstract
The precursor to the Euglena light harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding protein of photosystem II (LHCPII) is a polyprotein containing multiple copies of LHCPII covalently joined by a decapeptide linker. cDNA and genomic clones encoding the 5' and 3' end of a 6.6 kb LHCPII mRNA were sequenced. A 3.1 kb genomic region encoding 1.05 kb of the 5' end of LHCPII mRNA contains 4 introns. A 7.6 kb genomic region encoding 3.3 kb of the 3' end of LHCPII mRNA contains 10 introns. The 5' and 3' ends of the 14 identified Euglena introns lacked the conserved dinucleotides (5'-GT and AG-3') found at the termini of virtually every characterized nuclear pre-mRNA intron. A common consensus splice site selection sequence could not be identified. The Euglena introns do not have the structural characteristics of group I and group II introns. The only structural feature common to all Euglena introns was the ability of short stretches of nucleotides at the 5' and 3' ends of the introns to base pair, forming a stable stem-loop with the 5' and 3' splice site juxtaposed for splicing but displaced by 2 nucleotides. The 26 nucleotide sequence at the 5' end of LHCPII mRNA is absent from the genomic sequence and identical to the 5' end of one of the small Euglena SL-RNAs indicating that it is post-transcriptionally added by trans-splicing.
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