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Identification and characterization of a Plasmodium falciparum RNA polymerase gene with similarity to mitochondrial RNA polymerases.

Abstract：

:Nearly all mitochondrial RNA polymerase genes identified to date are encoded in the nucleus and have similarities to T3 and T7 bacteriophage RNA polymerases. Some chloroplast genes are also transcribed by T3/T7 phage-like RNA polymerases, raising the possibility that the apicomplexan parasites, which have both a mitochondrion and a plastid, might have two such genes. As part of an investigation of Plasmodium falciparum organelle transcription, we initiated a search for T3/T7 bacteriophage-like RNA polymerase genes. We employed degenerate primers based on highly conserved plant, animal and fungal mitochondrial RNA polymerase sequences to amplify corresponding P. falciparum sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Less well-conserved flanking sequences were obtained by inverse PCR. The resulting sequence predicts a 1503 amino acid open reading frame with similarity to other T3/T7 phage-like RNA polymerases. Essential amino acids that have been identified in T7 mutant analyses are conserved in the P. falciparum RNA polymerase gene. Comparison of the sequence with preliminary data from the P. falciparum genome sequencing project revealed strain heterogeneity within two regions of the gene. The amino-terminal predicted amino acid sequence of the RNA polymerase gene has similarities to mitochondrial targeting sequences. Taken together, these points suggest that we have identified the P. falciparum mitochondrial RNA polymerase gene.

journal_name

Mol Biochem Parasitol

journal_title

Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors

Li J,Maga JA,Cermakian N,Cedergren R,Feagin JE

doi

10.1016/s0166-6851(01)00223-7

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-04-06 00:00:00

pages

261-9

issue

2

eissn

0166-6851

issn

1872-9428

pii

S0166-6851(01)00223-7

journal_volume

113

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