[en] In bean, potato, and Oenothera plants, the C encoded at position 4 (C-4) in the mitochondrial tRNA(GAA)(Phe) gene is converted into a U in the mature tRNA, This nucleotide change corrects a mismatched C-4-A(69) base pair which appears when the gene sequence is folded into the cloverleaf structure. C-to-U conversions constitute the most common editing events occurring in plant mitochondrial mRNAs. While most of these conversions introduce changes in the amino acids specified by the mRNA and appear to be essential for the synthesis of functional proteins in plant mitochondria, the putative role of mitochondrial tRNA editing has not yet been defined. Since the edited form of the tRNA has the correct secondary and tertiary structures compared with the nonedited form, the two main processes which might be affected by a nucleotide conversion are aminoacylation and maturation. To test these possibilities, we determined the aminoacylation properties of unedited and edited potato mitochondrial tRNA(Phe) in vitro transcripts, as well as the processing efficiency of in vitro-synthesized potato mitochondrial tRNA(Phe) precursors. Reverse transcription-PCR amplification of natural precursors followed by cDNA sequencing was also used to investigate the influence of editing on processing. Our results show that C-to-U conversion at position 4 in the potato mitochondrial tRNA(GAA)(Phe) is not required for aminoacylation,vith phenylalanine but is likely to be essential for efficient processing of this tRNA.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
MarechalDrouard, L.
Cosset, A.
Remacle, Claire ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génétique
Ramamonjisoa, D.
Dietrich, A.
Language :
English
Title :
A single editing event is a prerequisite for efficient processing of potato mitochondrial phenylalanine tRNA
Publication date :
1996
Journal title :
Molecular and Cellular Biology
ISSN :
0270-7306
eISSN :
1098-5549
Publisher :
American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, United States - District of Columbia
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