Plant Organelle Genome Replication

Arabidopsis thaliana organelles mimic the T7 phage DNA replisome with specific interactions between Twinkle protein and DNA polymerases Pol1A and Pol1B

(2019) Stewart A. Morley et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Identification of a unique insertion in plant organellar DNA polymerases responsible for 5′-dRP lyase and strand-displacement activities: Implications for Base Excision Repair

(2018) Carlos H. Trasviña-Arenas et al.   DNA REPAIR

hDNA2 nuclease/helicase promotes centromeric DNA replication and genome stability

(2018) Zhengke Li et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Plant organellar DNA polymerases paralogs exhibit dissimilar nucleotide incorporation fidelity

(2018) Víctor M. Ayala-García et al.   FEBS Journal

The GIY-YIG endonuclease domain of Arabidopsis MutS homolog 1 specifically binds to branched DNA structures

(2018) Kenji Fukui et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Plant mitochondrial DNA

(2017) Brent L Nielsen   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Plant organellar DNA polymerases are replicative and translesion DNA synthesis polymerases

(2017) Noe Baruch-Torres et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Plant organellar DNA primase-helicase synthesizes RNA primers for organellar DNA polymerases using a unique recognition sequence

(2017) Antolín Peralta-Castro et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

RNase H1 Cooperates with DNA Gyrases to Restrict R-Loops and Maintain Genome Integrity in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

(2017) Zhuo Yang et al.   PLANT CELL

MSH1 maintains organelle genome stability and genetically interacts with RECA and RECG in the moss Physcomitrella patens

(2017) Masaki Odahara et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Holliday junction resolvases mediate chloroplast nucleoid segregation

(2017) Yusuke Kobayashi et al.   SCIENCE

Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages

(2016) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Yeast Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase and Transcription Factor Complex Catalyzes Efficient Priming of DNA Synthesis on Single-stranded DNA

(2016) Aparna Ramachandran et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A DNA2 Homolog Is Required for DNA Damage Repair, Cell Cycle Regulation, and Meristem Maintenance in Plants

(2016) Ning Jia et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Chloroplast DNA Copy Number Changes during Plant Development in Organelle DNA Polymerase Mutants

(2016) Stewart A. Morley et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Evolutionary dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: the effects of expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates

(2015) Andan Zhu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

TheSaccharomyces cerevisiaeDna2 can function as a sole nuclease in the processing of Okazaki fragments in DNA replication

(2015) Maryna Levikova et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Rolling Circle Replication Mechanism Produces Multimeric Lariats of Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2015) Samantha C. Lewis et al.   PLoS Genetics

Endosymbiotic theory for organelle origins

(2014) Verena Zimorski et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Minireview: DNA replication in plant mitochondria

(2014) John D. Cupp et al.   MITOCHONDRION

Enzymes involved in organellar DNA replication in photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2014) Takashi Moriyama et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The plant mitochondrial genome: Dynamics and maintenance

(2013) José M. Gualberto et al.   BIOCHIMIE

The Arabidopsis At1g30680 gene encodes a homologue to the phage T7 gp4 protein that has both DNA primase and DNA helicase activities

(2013) Joann Diray-Arce et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Plant Mitochondrial Genome Evolution Can Be Explained by DNA Repair Mechanisms

(2013) Alan C. Christensen   Genome Biology and Evolution

One ring to rule them all? Genome sequencing provides new insights into the ‘master circle’ model of plant mitochondrial DNA structure

(2013) Daniel B. Sloan   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Human mitochondrial RNA polymerase: Structure–function, mechanism and inhibition

(2012) Jamie J. Arnold et al.   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

A reevaluation of dual-targeting of proteins to mitochondria and chloroplasts

(2012) Christopher Carrie et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Effects of Reduced Chloroplast Gene Copy Number on Chloroplast Gene Expression in Maize

(2012) D. B. Udy et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The amount and integrity of mtDNA in maize decline with development

(2012) Delene J. Oldenburg et al.   PLANTA

Updating Our View of Organelle Genome Nucleotide Landscape

(2012) David Roy Smith   Frontiers in Genetics

Double-strand break repair processes drive evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Arabidopsis

(2011) Jaime I Davila et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Choreography of bacteriophage T7 DNA replication

(2011) Seung-Joo Lee et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Independent effects of leaf growth and light on the development of the plastid and its DNA content in Zea species

(2011) Qi Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The transcription machineries of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts: Composition, function, and regulation

(2011) Karsten Liere et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

MutS HOMOLOG1 Is a Nucleoid Protein That Alters Mitochondrial and Plastid Properties and Plant Response to High Light

(2011) Ying-Zhi Xu et al.   PLANT CELL

Divergent Roles for the Two PolI-Like Organelle DNA Polymerases of Arabidopsis

(2011) J.-S. Parent et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Super-resolution microscopy reveals that mammalian mitochondrial nucleoids have a uniform size and frequently contain a single copy of mtDNA

(2011) C. Kukat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of plant phage-type RNA polymerases: the genome of the basal angiosperm Nuphar advena encodes two mitochondrial and one plastid phage-type RNA polymerases

(2010) Chang Yin et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase Is Needed for Activation of the Origin of Light-Strand DNA Replication

(2010) Javier Miralles Fusté et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Crystal Structures of DNA-Whirly Complexes and Their Role inArabidopsisOrganelle Genome Repair

(2010) Laurent Cappadocia et al.   PLANT CELL

Fewer genes than organelles: extremely low and variable gene copy numbers in mitochondria of somatic plant cells

(2010) Tobias Preuten et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A multiple-method approach reveals a declining amount of chloroplast DNA during development in Arabidopsis

(2009) Beth A Rowan et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

DNA ligase 1 deficient plants display severe growth defects and delayed repair of both DNA single and double strand breaks

(2009) Wanda M Waterworth et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Number matters: control of mammalian mitochondrial DNA copy number

(2009) Laura L. Clay Montier et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Human Dna2 Is a Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance Protein

(2009) J. P. Duxin et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Whirly proteins maintain plastid genome stability in Arabidopsis

(2009) A. Marechal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by eukaryotic replicative and translesion synthesis polymerases

(2008) Scott D McCulloch et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Human DNA2 Is a Mitochondrial Nuclease/Helicase for Efficient Processing of DNA Replication and Repair Intermediates

(2008) Li Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Hyperthermophilic Aquifex aeolicus initiates primer synthesis on a limited set of trinucleotides comprised of cytosines and guanines

(2008) M. A. Larson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Approaches to defining dual-targeted proteins in Arabidopsis

(2008) Chris Carrie et al.   PLANT JOURNAL