THE SMALLEST KNOWN EUKARYOTIC GENOMES ENCODE A PROTEIN GENE - TOWARDSAN UNDERSTANDING OF NUCLEOMORPH FUNCTIONS

Authors
HOFMANN CJB RENSING SA HAUBER MM MARTIN WF MULLER SB COUCH J MCFADDEN GI IGLOI GL MAIER UG
Citation
Cjb. Hofmann et al., THE SMALLEST KNOWN EUKARYOTIC GENOMES ENCODE A PROTEIN GENE - TOWARDSAN UNDERSTANDING OF NUCLEOMORPH FUNCTIONS, MGG. Molecular & general genetics, 243(5), 1994, pp. 600-604
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Genetics & Heredity",Biology
Journal title
MGG. Molecular & general genetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00268925
Volume
243
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
600 - 604
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-8925(1994)243:5<600:TSKEGE>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Cryptomonads are unicellular algae with plastids surrounded by four me mbranes. Between the two pairs of membranes lies a periplastidal compa rtment that harbours a DNA-containing organelle, termed the nucleomorp h. The nucleomorph is the vestigial nucleus of a phototrophic, eukaryo tic endosymbiont. Subcloning of parts of one nucleomorph chromosome re vealed a gene coding for an Hsp70 protein. We demonstrate the expressi on of this nucleomorph protein-coding gene and present a model for pro tein transport from the host to the endosymbiont compartment.