Article
POT1 proteins in green algae and land plants: DNA-binding properties and evidence of co-evolution with telomeric DNA.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Dec 2009
Shakirov Eugene V, Song Xiangyu, Joseph Jessica A, Shippen Dorothy E
Abstract excerpt
Telomeric DNA terminates with a single-stranded 3' G-overhang that in vertebrates and fission yeast is bound by POT1 (Protection Of Telomeres). However, no in vitro telomeric DNA binding is associated with Arabidopsis POT1 paralogs. To further investigate POT1-DNA interaction in plants, we cloned POT1 genes from 11 plant species representing major branches of plant kingdom. Telomeric DNA binding was associated...
Topics
- Algal Proteins
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Asparagus Plant
- Binding Sites
- Chlorophyta
- DNA
- Evolution, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plant Proteins
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
