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Nucleic Acids Research, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 17 5027-5030
© 1990

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A potato mitochondrial isoleucine tRNA is coded for by a mitochondrial gene possessing a methionine anticodon

Frédérique Weber, André Dietrich, Jacques-Henry Weil and Laurence Maréchal-Drouard*

Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur 12 rue du Général Zimmer, F-67084 Strasbourg-Cedex, France

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received June 28, 1990. Revised July 31, 1990. Accepted July 31, 1990.

The nucleotide sequence of a potato mitochondrial tRNAlle has been determined. This tRNA has a lysidine-like minor nucleotide in the first position of the ariticodon (position 34). The corresponding mitochondrial gene has been cloned and sequenced. This gene has a CAT anticodon which corresponds to methionine. The C residue in the anticodon must therefore be post-transcriptionally modified. The mature tRNA has isoleucine-accepting activity but no methionine-accepting activity. This is the first report showing that in plant mitochondria a post-transcriptional modification could change the amino-acid specificity of a tRNA, as compared to that of the corresponding gene.


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