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JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH
Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 389-397Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-014-0627-1
Keywords
Genome rearrangement; Plastid genome; Porphyridium purpureum; Rhodophyta; rRNA operon
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- CREST grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [221S0002, 23310131, 25870155] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the plastid genome of the unicellular marine red alga Porphyridium purpureum strain NIES 2140, belonging to the unsequenced class Porphyridiophyceae. The genome is a circular DNA composed of 217,694 bp with the GC content of 30.3 %. Twenty-nine of the 224 protein-coding genes contain one or multiple intron(s). A group I intron was found in the rpl28 gene, whereas the other introns were group II introns. The P. purpureum plastid genome has one non-coding RNA (ncRNA) gene, 29 tRNA genes and two nonidentical ribosomal RNA operons. One rRNA operon has a tRNA(Ala)(UGC) gene between the rrs and the rrl genes, whereas another has a tRNA(Ile)(GAU) gene. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the plastids of Heterokontophyta, Cryptophyta and Haptophyta originated from the subphylum Rhodophytina. The order of the genes in the ribosomal protein cluster of the P. purpureum plastid genome differs from that of other Rhodophyta and Chromalveolata. These results suggest that a large-scale rearrangement occurred in the plastid genome of P. purpureum after its separation from other Rhodophyta.
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