期刊
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 39, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac222
关键词
RNA editing; chloroplast; PPR protein; co-evolution; RNA-binding protein; PPR code
资金
- Max Planck Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB-TRR 175]
- [ZO 302/5-1]
RNA editing is an important process in converting cytidines to uridines in plant organellar transcripts. This study investigates the evolution and recognition of a recently gained editing site, demonstrating that changes in RNA recognition motifs allow an ancient PPR protein, QED1, to specifically target this site. The study also finds that the target specificity of PPR proteins depends on the RNA:protein ratio and the low expression levels of PPR proteins are necessary to ensure editing site selection specificity.
RNA editing converts cytidines to uridines in plant organellar transcripts. Editing typically restores codons for conserved amino acids. During evolution, specific C-to-U editing sites can be lost from some plant lineages by genomic C-to-T mutations. By contrast, the emergence of novel editing sites is less well documented. Editing sites are recognized by pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins with high specificity. RNA recognition by PPR proteins is partially predictable, but prediction is often inadequate for PPRs involved in RNA editing. Here we have characterized evolution and recognition of a recently gained editing site. We demonstrate that changes in the RNA recognition motifs that are not explainable with the current PPR code allow an ancient PPR protein, QED1, to uniquely target the ndhB-291 site in Brassicaceae. When expressed in tobacco, the Arabidopsis QED1 edits 33 high-confident off-target sites in chloroplasts and mitochondria causing a spectrum of mutant phenotypes. By manipulating the relative expression levels of QED1 and ndhB-291, we show that the target specificity of the PPR protein depends on the RNA:protein ratio. Finally, our data suggest that the low expression levels of PPR proteins are necessary to ensure the specificity of editing site selection and prevent deleterious off-target editing.
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