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Nucleic Acids Research, 1989, Vol. 17, No. 14 5461-5476
© 1989

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Chloroplast-like transfer RNA genes expressed in wheat mitochondria

Paul B.M. Joyce and Michael W. Gray*

Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7, Canada

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received May 15, 1989. Accepted June 20, 1989.

In the course of a systematic survey of wheat mitochondria] tRNA genes, we have sequenced chloroplast–like serine (trnS-GGA), phenylalanine (trnF-GAA) and cysteine (trnC-GCA) tRNA genes and their flanking regions. These genes are remnants of ‘promiscuous‘ chloroplast DNA that has been incorporated into wheat mtDNA in the course of its evolution. Each gene differs by one or a few nucleotides from the authentic chloroplast homolog previously characterized in wheat or other plants, and each could potentially encode a functional tRNA whose secondary structure shows no deviations from the generalized model. To determine whether these chloroplast–like tRNA genes are actually expressed, wheat mitochondria! tRNAs were resolved by a series of polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses, after being specifically end–labeled in vitro by 3'–CCA addition mediated by wheat tRNA nucleotidyltransferase. Subsequent direct RNA sequence analysis identified prominent tRNA species corresponding to the mitochondria! and not the chloroplast trnS, tmF and tmC genes. This analysis also revealed chloroplast–like elongator methionine, asparagine and tryptophan tRNAs. Our results suggest that at least some chloroplast–like tRNA genes in wheat mtDNA are transcribed, with transcripts undergoing processing, post–transcriptional modification and 3'–CCA addition, to produce mature tRNAs that may participate in mitochondrial protein synthesis.


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