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Plant and Cell Physiology, 2002, Vol. 43, No. 3 245-255
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Identification and Characterization of Two Phage-Type RNA Polymerase cDNAs in the Moss Physcomitrella patens: Implication of Recent Evolution of Nuclear-Encoded RNA Polymerase of Plastids in Plants

Yukihiro Kabeya, Kazuyoshi Hashimoto and Naoki Sato1

Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Saitama University, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, 338-8570 Japan

We isolated two cDNAs for the genes PpRPOT1 and PpRPOT2 that encode phage-type RNA polymerases (RPOTs) from Physcomitrella patens. Transcriptional activity of the encoded proteins was demonstrated by an in vitro transcription assay. Transiently expressed RPOT green fluorescent protein fusion proteins were both targeted to mitochondria. These results suggest that both PpRPOT1 and PpRPOT2 proteins function as mitochondrial RNA polymerases. Detailed phylogenetic analysis using neighbor-joining and maximum-likelihood methods with both DNA and protein sequences indicated that the two genes of P. patens form a sister group to all flowering plant genes. This suggests that the gene duplication leading to the production of plastid-type isozymes occurred after the separation of vascular plant lineage from bryophyte lineage. We therefore suggest that the generation of nuclear-encoded RNA polymerase of chloroplast is a rather recent event during the evolution of land plants.

1 Corresponding author: E-mail, naokisat@molbiol.saitama-u.ac.jp; Fax, +81-48-8583384.


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