Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.

The codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene is atypical for flowering plant chloroplast genes but similar to the codon usage observed in highly expressed plastid genes from some other Plantae, particularly Chlorobionta, lineages. The pattern of codon bias in these genes is suggestive of selection fo...

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Autores principales:	Antonina Kalkus, Joy Barrett, Theyjasvi Ashok, Brian R Morton
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7bebf0fca6ee48438559dc10561d78492021-12-02T19:57:41ZEvidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.1553-734X1553-735810.1371/journal.pcbi.1009535https://doaj.org/article/7bebf0fca6ee48438559dc10561d78492021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009535https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358The codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene is atypical for flowering plant chloroplast genes but similar to the codon usage observed in highly expressed plastid genes from some other Plantae, particularly Chlorobionta, lineages. The pattern of codon bias in these genes is suggestive of selection for a set of translationally optimal codons but the degree of bias towards these optimal codons is much weaker in the flowering plant psbA gene than in high expression plastid genes from lineages such as certain green algal groups. Two scenarios have been proposed to explain these observations. One is that the flowering plant psbA gene is currently under weak selective constraints for translation efficiency, the other is that there are no current selective constraints and we are observing the remnants of an ancestral codon adaptation that is decaying under mutational pressure. We test these two models using simulations studies that incorporate the context-dependent mutational properties of plant chloroplast DNA. We first reconstruct ancestral sequences and then simulate their evolution in the absence of selection on codon usage by using mutation dynamics estimated from intergenic regions. The results show that psbA has a significantly higher level of codon adaptation than expected while other chloroplast genes are within the range predicted by the simulations. These results suggest that there have been selective constraints on the codon usage of the flowering plant psbA gene during Angiosperm evolution.Antonina KalkusJoy BarrettTheyjasvi AshokBrian R MortonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 10, p e1009535 (2021)
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description	The codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene is atypical for flowering plant chloroplast genes but similar to the codon usage observed in highly expressed plastid genes from some other Plantae, particularly Chlorobionta, lineages. The pattern of codon bias in these genes is suggestive of selection for a set of translationally optimal codons but the degree of bias towards these optimal codons is much weaker in the flowering plant psbA gene than in high expression plastid genes from lineages such as certain green algal groups. Two scenarios have been proposed to explain these observations. One is that the flowering plant psbA gene is currently under weak selective constraints for translation efficiency, the other is that there are no current selective constraints and we are observing the remnants of an ancestral codon adaptation that is decaying under mutational pressure. We test these two models using simulations studies that incorporate the context-dependent mutational properties of plant chloroplast DNA. We first reconstruct ancestral sequences and then simulate their evolution in the absence of selection on codon usage by using mutation dynamics estimated from intergenic regions. The results show that psbA has a significantly higher level of codon adaptation than expected while other chloroplast genes are within the range predicted by the simulations. These results suggest that there have been selective constraints on the codon usage of the flowering plant psbA gene during Angiosperm evolution.
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author	Antonina Kalkus Joy Barrett Theyjasvi Ashok Brian R Morton
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title	Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.
title_short	Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.
title_full	Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.
title_fullStr	Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.
title_full_unstemmed	Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.
title_sort	evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the angiosperm psba gene.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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Evidence from simulation studies for selective constraints on the codon usage of the Angiosperm psbA gene.

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