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The longest mitochondrial protein in metazoans is encoded by the male-transmitted mitogenome of the bivalve Scrobicularia plana

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BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 18, 期 6, 页码 -

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ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0122

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mitogenomics; DNA insertion; cytochrome c oxidase subunit 2; doubly uniparental inheritance; Bivalvia

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2019-04076]
  2. Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-18-CE02-0004-01]
  3. Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Mitochondrial Evolutionary Biology

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This study discovered a large insertion in the cox2 gene of the male-transmitted mtDNA in a bivalve species, suggesting its significant impact on the functionality of the gene.
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COX2) is one of the three mitochondrially encoded proteins of the complex IV of the respiratory chain that catalyses the reduction of oxygen to water. The cox2 gene spans about 690 base pairs in most animal species and produces a protein composed of approximately 230 amino acids. We discovered an extreme departure from this pattern in the male-transmitted mitogenome of the bivalve Scrobicularia plana with doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which possesses an important in-frame insertion of approximately 4.8 kb in its cox2 gene. This feature-an enlarged male cox2 gene-is found in many species with DUI; the COX2 protein can be up to 420 amino acids long. Through RT-PCRs, immunoassays and comparative genetics, the evolution and functionality of this insertion in S. plana were characterized. The in-frame insertion is conserved among individuals from different populations and bears the signature of purifying selection seemingly indicating maintenance of functionality. Its transcription and translation were confirmed: this gene produces a polypeptide of 1892 amino acids, making it the largest metazoan COX2 protein known to date. We hypothesize that these extreme modifications in the COX2 protein affect the metabolism of mitochondria containing the male-transmitted mtDNA in Scrobicularia plana.

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