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Revisiting the Yeast PPR Proteins - Application of an Iterative Hidden Markov Model Algorithm Reveals New Members of the Rapidly Evolving Family.

Lipinski, Kamil A and Puchta, Olga and Surandranath, Vineeth and Kudla, Marek and Golik, Paweł (2011) Revisiting the Yeast PPR Proteins - Application of an Iterative Hidden Markov Model Algorithm Reveals New Members of the Rapidly Evolving Family. Molecular biology and evolution . ISSN 1537-1719

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Abstract

Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins form the largest known RNA-binding protein family, and are found in all eukaryotes, being particularly abundant in higher plants. PPR proteins localize mostly to mitochondria and chloroplasts, and many were shown to modulate organellar genome expression on the posttranscriptional level. While the genomes of land plants encode hundreds of PPR proteins, only a few have been identified in Fungi and Metazoa. As the current PPR motif profiles are built mainly on the basis of the predominant plant sequences, they are unlikely to be optimal for detecting fungal and animal members of the family, and many putative PPR proteins in these genomes may remain undetected. In order to verify this hypothesis we designed a HMM-based bioinformatic tool called SCIPHER (Supervised Clustering-based Iterative Phylogenetic Hidden Markov Model algorithm for the Evaluation of tandem Repeat motif families) using sequence data from orthologous clusters from available yeast genomes. This approach allowed us to assign twelve new proteins in S. cerevisiae to the PPR family. Similarly, in other yeast species we obtained a five-fold increase in the detection of PPR motifs, compared to the previous tools. All the newly identified S. cerevisiae PPR proteins localize in the mitochondrion and are a part of the RNA processing interaction network. Furthermore, the yeast PPR proteins seem to undergo an accelerated divergent evolution. Analysis of single and double amino acid substitutions in the Dmr1 protein of S. cerevisiae suggests that cooperative interactions between motifs and pseudoreversion could be the force driving this rapid evolution.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
ID Code:156
Deposited By: Dr Pawel Golik
Deposited On:01 Jan 2013 12:13
Last Modified:14 Oct 2014 10:27

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