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Comparison of mitochondrial gene expression and polysome loading in different tobacco tissues

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Title
Comparison of mitochondrial gene expression and polysome loading in different tobacco tissues
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Plant Methods, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13007-017-0257-4
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Muhammad Waqar Hameed, Ilona Juszczak, Ralph Bock, Joost Thomas van Dongen

Abstract

To investigate translational regulation of gene expression in plant mitochondria, a mitochondrial polysome isolation protocol was established for tobacco to investigate polysomal mRNA loading as a proxy for translational activity. Furthermore, we developed an oligonucleotide based microarray platform to determine the level of Nicotiana tabacum and Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrial mRNA. Microarray analysis of free and polysomal mRNAs was used to characterize differences in the levels of free transcripts and ribosome-bound mRNAs in various organs of tobacco plants. We have observed higher mitochondrial transcript levels in young leaves, flowers and floral buds as compared to fully expanded leaves and roots. A similar pattern of abundance was observed for ribosome-bound mitochondrial mRNAs in these tissues. However, the accumulation of the mitochondrial protein COX2 was found to be inversely related to that of its ribosome-bound mRNA. Our results indicate that the association of mitochondrial mRNAs to ribosomes is largely determined by the total transcript level of a gene. However, at least for Cox2, we demonstrated that the level of ribosome-bound mRNA is not reflected by the amount of COX2 protein.

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Unknown 23 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Professor 3 13%
Student > Master 3 13%
Researcher 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Other 5 22%
Unknown 3 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Neuroscience 1 4%
Chemistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 17%
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