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CFM1, a member of the CRM-domain protein family, functions in chloroplast group II intron splicing in Setaria viridis

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PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages 639-648

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15060

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S; etaria viridis; Zea mays; intron; chloroplast; splicing

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  1. National Science Foundation [IOS-1339130]
  2. JSPS KAKENHI [16K07400]
  3. BARD, the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund [US-4443-11]
  4. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K07400] Funding Source: KAKEN

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A new study shows that CRM Family Member1 (CFM1) facilitates the splicing of chloroplast introns in plants, particularly those not previously known to require CRM domain proteins. Deficiencies in these introns result in compromised chloroplast protein synthesis, leading to whole-plant chlorotic phenotypes.
The chloroplast RNA splicing and ribosome maturation (CRM) domain is a RNA-binding domain found in a plant-specific protein family whose characterized members play essential roles in splicing group I and group II introns in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Together, these proteins are required for splicing of the majority of the approximately 20 chloroplast introns in land plants. Here, we provide evidence from Setaria viridis and maize that an uncharacterized member of this family, CRM Family Member1 (CFM1), promotes the splicing of most of the introns that had not previously been shown to require a CRM domain protein. A Setaria mutant expressing mutated CFM1 was strongly disrupted in the splicing of three chloroplast tRNAs: trnI, trnV and trnA. Analyses by RNA gel blot and polysome association suggest that the tRNA deficiencies lead to compromised chloroplast protein synthesis and the observed whole-plant chlorotic phenotypes. Co-immunoprecipitation data demonstrate that the maize CFM1 ortholog is bound to introns whose splicing is disrupted in the cfm1 mutant. With these results, CRM domain proteins have been shown to promote the splicing of all but two of the introns found in angiosperm chloroplast genomes.

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