Abstract：
:Protein trafficking pathways to plastids are directed by N-terminal targeting peptides. In plants this consists of a relatively simple transit peptide, while in organisms with secondary plastids (which reside within the endomembrane system) a signal peptide is appended to the transit peptide. Despite amino acid compositional differences between organisms, often due to nucleotide biases, the features of plastid targeting sequences are generally consistent within species. Dinoflagellate algae deviate from this trend. We have conducted an expressed sequence tag (EST) survey of the peridinin-plastid containing dinoflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra to identify and characterize numerous targeting presequences of plastid proteins encoded in the nucleus. Consistent with targeting systems present in other secondary plastid-containing organisms, these all possess a canonical signal peptide at their N termini, however two major classes of transit peptides occur. Both classes possess a common N-terminal portion of the transit peptide, but one class of transit peptides contains a hydrophobic domain that has been reported to act as a stop-transfer membrane anchor, temporarily arresting protein insertion into the endoplasmic reticulum. A second class of transit peptide lacks this feature. These two classes are represented approximately equally, and for any given protein the class is conserved across all dinoflagellate taxa surveyed to date. This dichotomy suggests that two mechanisms, perhaps even trafficking routes, may direct proteins to dinoflagellate plastids. A four-residue phenylalanine-based motif is also a consistent feature of H. triquetra transit peptides, which is an ancient feature predating red algae and galucophytes that was lost in green plastids.
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J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Patron NJ,Waller RF,Archibald JM,Keeling PJdoi
10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.030keywords:
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2005-05-13 00:00:00pages
1015-24issue
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0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
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