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Received August 19, 2003
Returned for revision October 26, 2003
Accepted January 21, 2004

The CPH1 Gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Encodes Two Forms of Cryptochrome Whose Levels Are Controlled by Light-Induced Proteolysis

Nichole A. Reisdorph and Gary D. Small *

Cellular and Molecular Biology Group, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069

* Corresponding author; email: gsmall{at}usd.edu.

Cryptochromes are proteins related to DNA photolyases and have been shown to function as blue-light photoreceptors and to play important roles in circadian rhythms in both plants and animals. The CPH1 gene from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was originally predicted to encode a putative cryptochrome protein of 867 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 91 kD (Small et al., 1995). However, western blotting with antibodies specific to the CPH1 protein revealed the presence of two proteins that migrate at apparent molecular mass of approximately 126 and 143 kD. A reexamination of the assigned intron-exon boundaries has shown that the previously assigned intron 7 is in fact part of exon 7 which leads to a predicted protein of 1,007 amino acids corresponding to a size of 104.6 kD. The two forms of CPH1 that migrate slower on SDS-PAGE presumably result from unknown posttranslational modifications. In C. reinhardtii cells synchronized by light to dark cycles, the two slow migrating forms of CPH1 protein accumulate in the dark and disappear rapidly in the light. Both red and blue light are effective at inducing the degradation of the CPH1 proteins. Proteasomes are implicated because degradation is inhibited by MG132, a proteasome inhibitor. Studies with deletion mutants indicate that the C-terminal region is important for both the posttranslational modification and the protein's stability under both light and dark conditions.




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