S2 episome of maize mitochondria encodes a 130-kilodalton protein found in male sterile and fertile plants
AUTOR(ES)
Zabala, G.
RESUMO
The mitochondrial genome of the S-type male-sterile cytoplasm of maize contains two linear episomes, S1 (6397 base pairs) and S2 (5453 base pairs). The S2 episome contains two large unidentified open reading frames, URF1 (3512 base pairs) and URF2 (1017 base pairs). We have demonstrated that a polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass of 130 kDa is the gene product of URF1. This polypeptide was first detected in Coomassie blue-stained protein gels of cms-S (where cms = cytoplasmic male sterile) but not in those of cms-T, cms-C, or normal mitochondrial proteins. The protein product of a translational fusion containing the 5′ end of Escherichia coli lacZ and an internal segment from URF1 of S2 was recognized by antisera raised against the 130-kDa variant polypeptide. The mitochondria of fertile F1 hybrids of cms-S × Ky21 (the male parent carrying nuclear fertility restoration genes) contain as much of the 130-kDa protein as is found in cms-S mitochondria of sterile plants. Spontaneous fertile cytoplasmic revertants from cms-S in a WF9 nuclear background also synthesized the 130-kDa polypeptide. Therefore, the mere presence or absence of the URF1 gene product of S2 does not determine the fertility status of maize plants, because male sterile and male fertile (nuclear restored and revertant) plants can contain equivalent amounts of the 130-kDa polypeptide.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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