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Genetics, Vol 143, 777-788, Copyright © 1996
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Mitochondrial Intronic Open Reading Frames in Podospora: Mobility and Consecutive Exonic Sequence Variations
C. H. Sellem, Y. d'Aubenton-Carafa, M. Rossignol and L. Belcour
Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
The mitochondrial genome of 23 wild-type strains belonging to three different species of the filamentous fungus Podospora was examined. Among the 15 optional sequences identified are two intronic reading frames, nad1-i4-orf1 and cox1-i7-orf2. We show that the presence of these sequences was strictly correlated with tightly clustered nucleotide substitutions in the adjacent exon. This correlation applies to the presence or absence of closely related open reading frames (ORFs), found at the same genetic locations, in all the Pyrenomycete genera examined. The recent gain of these optional ORFs in the evolution of the genus Podospora probably account for such sequence differences. In the homoplasmic progeny from heteroplasmons constructed between Podospora strains differing by the presence of these optional ORFs, nad1-i4-orf1 and cox1-i7-orf2 appeared highly invasive. Sequence comparisons in the nad1-i4 intron of various strains of the Pyrenomycete family led us to propose a scenario of its evolution that includes several events of loss and gain of intronic ORFs. These results strongly reinforce the idea that group I intronic ORFs are mobile elements and that their transfer, and comcomitant modification of the adjacent exon, could participate in the modular evolution of mitochondrial genomes.
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