PCB6528 Spring 08 Organelle Genomes & Gene Expression

PCB 6528, Spring 2008 – Organelle Genomes & Gene Expression
Christine Chase 2215 Fifield Hall 2-1928 x316 ctdc@ifas.ufl.edu

Class

Reading: *denotes required reading; **denotes helpful, supplemental reading

Mon Feb 4

Handout 1

**Lopez-Juez, E and KA Pyke (2005) Plastids unleashed: their development and their integration in plant development. Int J Dev Biol 49:557-577

**Knoop, V (2004) The mitochondrial DNA of land plants: peculiarities in phylogenetic perspective. Curr Genet 46: 123-139

** Barbrook, AC, CJ Howe and S Purton (2006) Why are plastid genomes retained in non-photosynthetic organsims? Trends in Plant Sci 11:101-108

*Kubo, T and KJ Newton (2008) angiosperm mitochondrial genomes and mutations. Mitochondrion (doi:1010016/j.mito.2007.10.006)

Wed Feb 6

Discussion paper on plant mitochondrial genomes:

*Sandu, APS, RV Abdelnoor and SA Mackenzie (2007) Transgenic induction of mitochondrial rearrangements for cytoplasmic male sterility in crop plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:1766-1770

Fri Feb 8
Handout 2

**Toyoshima and Onda (2005) Plastid transcription in higher plants. Crit Rev Plant Sci 24:59-81

** Bonen, L (2008) Cis and trans-splicing of group I I introns in plant mitochondria. Mitochondrion 8:26-34

** Shikanai, T (2006) RNA editing in plant organelles: machinery, physiological function and evolution. Cell Mol. Life Sci 63:698-708

** Marin-Navarro, J, AL Manuell, J Wu and SP Mayfield (2007) Chloroplast translation regulation. Photosynth Res 94:359-374

Mon Feb 11

Discussion papers:
*Okuda, K, F Myouga, R Motohashi, K Shinozaki and T Shikanai (2007) Conserved domain structure of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins involved in chloroplast RNA editing. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:8178-8183

*Salon, V, M Rudinger, M Polsakiewicz, B Hoffmann, M Groth-Malonek, B Szurek, I Small, V Knoop and C Lurin (2007) A hypothesis on the identification of the editing enzyme in plant organelles

* Andres, C, C Lurin and ID Small (2007) The multifarious roles of PPR proteins in plant mitochondrial gene expression. Physiolog. Plantarum 129:14-22

**Lurin et al. (2004) Genome-wide analysis of Arabidopsis pentatricopeptide repeat proteins reveals their essential role in organelle biogenesis. Plant Cell 16:2089-2103

Wed Feb 13

Discussion paper:

*Bohne, A-V, S Ruf, T Borner & R Bock (2007) Faithful transcription initiation from a mitochondrial promoter in transgenic plastids. Nucl Acids Res 35 (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm679)

Fri Feb 15

Discussion paper:

*Schmitz-Linneweber, C, R Williams-Carrier and A Barkan (2005) RNA immunoprecipitation and microarray analysis show association with the 5’ region of mRNAs whose translation it activates. The Plant Cell 17:2791-2804 (2005)

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