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A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants

The male fertility restorer (RF) proteins belong to extended protein families associated with the cytoplasmic male sterility in higher plants. Up till now, there is no devised nomenclature for naming the RF proteins. The systematic sequencing of new plant species in recent years has uncovered the ex...

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Autores principales: Kotchoni, Simeon O., Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C., Gachomo, Emma W., Seufferheld, Manfredo J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21203394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015906
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author Kotchoni, Simeon O.
Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C.
Gachomo, Emma W.
Seufferheld, Manfredo J.
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Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C.
Gachomo, Emma W.
Seufferheld, Manfredo J.
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description The male fertility restorer (RF) proteins belong to extended protein families associated with the cytoplasmic male sterility in higher plants. Up till now, there is no devised nomenclature for naming the RF proteins. The systematic sequencing of new plant species in recent years has uncovered the existence of several novel RF genes and their encoded proteins. Their naming has been simply arbitrary and could not be adequately handled in the context of comparative functional genomics. We propose in this study a unified nomenclature for the RF extended protein families across all plant species. This new and unified nomenclature relies upon previously developed nomenclature for the first ever characterized RF gene, RF2A/ALDH2B2, a member of ALDH gene superfamily, and adheres to the guidelines issued by the ALDH Genome Nomenclature Committees. The proposed nomenclature reveals that RF gene superfamily encodes currently members of 51 families. This unified nomenclature accommodates functional RF genes and pseudogenes, and offers the flexibility needed to incorporate additional RFs as they become available in future. In addition, we provide a phylogenetic relationship between the RF extended families and use computational protein modeling to demonstrate the high divergence of RF functional specializations through specific structural features of selected members of RF superfamily.
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spelling pubmed-30110042011-01-03 A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants Kotchoni, Simeon O. Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C. Gachomo, Emma W. Seufferheld, Manfredo J. PLoS One Research Article The male fertility restorer (RF) proteins belong to extended protein families associated with the cytoplasmic male sterility in higher plants. Up till now, there is no devised nomenclature for naming the RF proteins. The systematic sequencing of new plant species in recent years has uncovered the existence of several novel RF genes and their encoded proteins. Their naming has been simply arbitrary and could not be adequately handled in the context of comparative functional genomics. We propose in this study a unified nomenclature for the RF extended protein families across all plant species. This new and unified nomenclature relies upon previously developed nomenclature for the first ever characterized RF gene, RF2A/ALDH2B2, a member of ALDH gene superfamily, and adheres to the guidelines issued by the ALDH Genome Nomenclature Committees. The proposed nomenclature reveals that RF gene superfamily encodes currently members of 51 families. This unified nomenclature accommodates functional RF genes and pseudogenes, and offers the flexibility needed to incorporate additional RFs as they become available in future. In addition, we provide a phylogenetic relationship between the RF extended families and use computational protein modeling to demonstrate the high divergence of RF functional specializations through specific structural features of selected members of RF superfamily. Public Library of Science 2010-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3011004/ /pubmed/21203394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015906 Text en Kotchoni et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Kotchoni, Simeon O.
Jimenez-Lopez, Jose C.
Gachomo, Emma W.
Seufferheld, Manfredo J.
A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title_full A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title_fullStr A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title_full_unstemmed A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title_short A New and Unified Nomenclature for Male Fertility Restorer (RF) Proteins in Higher Plants
title_sort new and unified nomenclature for male fertility restorer (rf) proteins in higher plants
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21203394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015906
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