M. W. Gray

Publication List Details

Period

1976 - 1999

Number

80

Co-Authors

Differences in editing at homologous sites in messenger RNAs from angiosperm mitochondria (1990)

Covello, P.S., Gray, M.W.

Recent work has shown that amino acid sequence comparisons can be used to infer sites of C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondrial mRNAs (1). In order to test such predictions further and to search...

Is wheat mitochondrial 5S ribosomal RNA prokaryotic in nature? (1981)

Gray, M.W., Spencer, D.F.

Küntzel et at. (1981) {Nucleic Acids Res. 9, 1451–1461) recently concluded that the sequence of wheat mitochondrial 5S rRNA is significantly more related to prokaryotic than to eukaryotic 5S rRNA...

Organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome of plants I. The genes for wheat mitochondrial ribosomal and transfer RNA: evidence for an unusual arrangement (1980)

Bonen, L., Gray, M.W.

We show here that mitochondrial-specific ribosomal and transfer RNAs of wheat (Triticium vulgare Vill. [Triticum aestivum L.] var. Thatcher) are encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Individual...

Wheat embryo mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: evidence for its prokaryotic nature (1977)

Bonen, L., Cunningham, R.S., Gray, M.W., Doolittle, W.F.

We present a catalog of sequences of oligonucleotides produced by Tl ribonuclease digestion of 32P-labeled small-ribosomal-subunit RNA (“18S” rRNA) isolated from purified wheat embryo...

O2'-Methylinosine, a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata. (1976)

Gray, M.W.

A novel nucleoside, O2′-methylinosine (Im), has teen identified as a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata, a hemoflaggelate protozoan. The nucleoside is released as part of an...

The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor. Two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algae.

Turmel, M, Lemieux, C, Burger, G, Lang, B F, Otis, C, Plante, I, ...

Green plants appear to comprise two sister lineages, Chlorophyta (classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, and Prasinophyceae) and Streptophyta (Charophyceae and Embryophyta, or land...

Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the red alga Porphyra purpurea. Cyanobacterial introns and shared ancestry of red and green algae.

Burger, G, Saint-Louis, D, Gray, M W, Lang, B F

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Porphyra purpurea, a circular-mapping genome of 36,753 bp, has been completely sequenced. A total of 57 densely packed genes has been identified, including the basic...

Sequences homologous to yeast mitochondrial and bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases are widespread throughout the eukaryotic lineage.

Cermakian, N, Ikeda, T M, Cedergren, R, Gray, M W

Although mitochondria and chloroplasts are considered to be descendants of eubacteria-like endo- symbionts, the mitochondrial RNA polymerase of yeast is a nucleus-encoded, single-subunit enzyme...

The Organelle Genome Database Project (GOBASE).

Korab-Laskowska, M, Rioux, P, Brossard, N, Littlejohn, T G, Gray, M W, Lang, B F, ...

The taxonomically broad organelle genome database (GOBASE) organizes and integrates diverse data related to organelles (mitochondria and chloroplasts). The current version of GOBASE focuses on the...

Genome structure and gene content in protist mitochondrial DNAs.

Gray, M W, Lang, B F, Cedergren, R, Golding, G B, Lemieux, C, Sankoff, D, ...

Although the collection of completely sequenced mitochondrial genomes is expanding rapidly, only recently has a phylogenetically broad representation of mtDNA sequences from protists (mostly...

Chloroplast-like transfer RNA genes expressed in wheat mitochondria.

Joyce, P B, Gray, M W

In the course of a systematic survey of wheat mitochondrial tRNA genes, we have sequenced chloroplast-like serine (trnS-GGA), phenylalanine (trnF-GAA) and cysteine (trnC-GCA) tRNA genes and their...

On the evolutionary descent of organisms and organelles: a global phylogeny based on a highly conserved structural core in small subunit ribosomal RNA.

Gray, M W, Sankoff, D, Cedergren, R J

To probe the earliest evolutionary events attending the origin of the five known genome types (archaebacterial, eubacterial, nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid), we have analyzed sequences...

Nucleotide sequence of an exceptionally long 5.8S ribosomal RNA from Crithidia fasciculata.

Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

In Crithidia fasciculata, a trypanosomatid protozoan, the large ribosomal subunit contains five small RNA species (e, f, g, i, j) in addition to 5S rRNA [Gray, M.W. (1981) Mol. Cell. Biol. 1,...

3'-Terminal sequence of wheat mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: further evidence of a eubacterial evolutionary origin.

Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

We have determined the sequences of the 3'-terminal approximately 100 nucleotides of [5' -32P]pCp-labeled wheat mitochondrial, wheat cytosol, and E. coli small sub-unit rRNAs. Sequence comparison...

Nucleotide sequence of Crithidia fasciculata cytosol 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid.

MacKay, R M, Gray, M W, Doolittle, W F

The complete nucleotide sequence of the cytosol 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid of the trypanosomatid protozoan Crithidia fasciculata has been determined by a combination of T1-oligonucleotide catalog...

Organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome of plants I. The genes for wheat mitochondrial ribosomal and transfer RNA: evidence for an unusual arrangement.

Bonen, L, Gray, M W

We show here that mitochondrial-specific ribosomal and transfer RNAs of wheat (Triticum vulgare Vill. [Triticum aestivum L.] var. Thatcher) are encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Individual...

Is wheat mitochondrial 5S ribosomal RNA prokaryotic in nature?

Gray, M W, Spencer, D F

Küntzel et al. (1981) (Nucleic Acids Res. 9, 1451-1461) recently concluded that the sequence of wheat mitochondrial 5S rRNA is significantly more related to prokaryotic than to eukaryotic 5S rRNA...

Differences in editing at homologous sites in messenger RNAs from angiosperm mitochondria.

Covello, P S, Gray, M W

Recent work has shown that amino acid sequence comparisons can be used to infer sites of C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondrial mRNAs (1). In order to test such predictions further and to search...

Aspartate and asparagine tRNA genes in wheat mitochondrial DNA: a cautionary note on the isolation of tRNA genes from plants.

Joyce, P B, Gray, M W

We have identified genes encoding a "native" tRNA(Asp) (trnD-GTC) and a "chloroplast-like" tRNA(Asn) (trnN-GTT) on opposite strands and 633 bp apart within a sequenced 1640 bp RsaI restriction...

The wheat mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b: absence of a prokaryotic ribosome binding site.

Boer, P H, McIntosh, J E, Gray, M W, Bonen, L

The wheat mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (CYB) has been identified by its hybridization to a yeast CYB probe and its nucleotide sequence has been determined. The wheat CYB sequence predicts a...

Wheat embryo mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: evidence for its prokaryotic nature.

Bonen, L, Cunningham, R S, Gray, M W, Doolittle, W F

We present a catalog of sequences of oligonucleotides produced by T1 ribonuclease digestion of 32P-labeled small-ribosomal-subunit RNA ("18S rRNA) isolated from purified wheat embryo mitochondria....

O2'-Methylinosine, a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata.

Gray, M W

A novel nucleoside, O2'-methylinosine (Im), has been identified as a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata, a hemoflaggelate protozoan. The nucleoside is released as part of an...

Pronounced structural similarities between the small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of wheat mitochondria and Escherichia coli.

Spencer, D F, Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

We present here the nucleotide sequence of the small subunit (18S) rRNA gene from wheat mitochondria. Aside from five discrete variable domains, this gene and the analogous (16S) rRNA gene in...

Accurate transcription of a plant mitochondrial gene in vitro.

Hanic-Joyce, P J, Gray, M W

To investigate transcriptional mechanisms in plant mitochondria, we have developed an accurate and efficient in vitro transcription system consisting of a partially purified wheat mitochondrial...

Unusual pattern of ribonucleic acid components in the ribosome of Crithidia fasciculata, a trypanosomatid protozoan.

Gray, M W

In a previous study from this laboratory, presumptive ribosomal ribonucleic acid (RNA) species were identified in the total cellular RNA directly extracted from intact cells of the trypanosomatid...

Genes for respiratory chain proteins and ribosomal RNAs are present on a 16-kilobase-pair DNA species from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria.

Boer, P H, Bonen, L, Lee, R W, Gray, M W

We have used heterologous hybridization and DNA sequence analysis to determine whether the 16-kilobase-pair (kbp) DNA from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria is the functional equivalent of mtDNA...

Genes encoding a subunit of respiratory NADH dehydrogenase (ND1) and a reverse transcriptase-like protein (RTL) are linked to ribosomal RNA gene pieces in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial DNA.

Boer, P H, Gray, M W

Two long and uninterrupted reading frames, specifying the ND1 and RTL genes, are embedded within fragmented rRNA genes in the 15.8-kb mitochondrial genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular...

Silent mitochondrial and active nuclear genes for subunit 2 of cytochrome c oxidase (cox2) in soybean: evidence for RNA-mediated gene transfer.

Covello, P S, Gray, M W

In most plants and other eukaryotes investigated, the mitochondrial genome carries the gene encoding subunit 2 of cytochrome c oxidase (cox2). In this paper, we show that the previously reported...

The URF 5 gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria: DNA sequence and mode of transcription.

Boer, P H, Gray, M W

A gene homologous to unassigned reading frame (URF) 5 of the mammalian mitochondrial genome has been identified in the mitochondrial DNA of the unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The...

A novel nucleotide incorporation activity implicated in the editing of mitochondrial transfer RNAs in Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Price, D H, Gray, M W

In Acanthamoeba castellanii, most of the mtDNA-encoded tRNAs are edited by a process that replaces one or more of the first three nucleotides at their 5' ends. As a result, base pairing potential is...

The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor. Two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algae.

Turmel, M, Lemieux, C, Burger, G, Lang, B F, Otis, C, Plante, I, ...

Green plants appear to comprise two sister lineages, Chlorophyta (classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, and Prasinophyceae) and Streptophyta (Charophyceae and Embryophyta, or land...

Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the red alga Porphyra purpurea. Cyanobacterial introns and shared ancestry of red and green algae.

Burger, G, Saint-Louis, D, Gray, M W, Lang, B F

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Porphyra purpurea, a circular-mapping genome of 36,753 bp, has been completely sequenced. A total of 57 densely packed genes has been identified, including the basic...

Sequences homologous to yeast mitochondrial and bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases are widespread throughout the eukaryotic lineage.

Cermakian, N, Ikeda, T M, Cedergren, R, Gray, M W

Although mitochondria and chloroplasts are considered to be descendants of eubacteria-like endo- symbionts, the mitochondrial RNA polymerase of yeast is a nucleus-encoded, single-subunit enzyme...

The Organelle Genome Database Project (GOBASE).

Korab-Laskowska, M, Rioux, P, Brossard, N, Littlejohn, T G, Gray, M W, Lang, B F, ...

The taxonomically broad organelle genome database (GOBASE) organizes and integrates diverse data related to organelles (mitochondria and chloroplasts). The current version of GOBASE focuses on the...

Genome structure and gene content in protist mitochondrial DNAs.

Gray, M W, Lang, B F, Cedergren, R, Golding, G B, Lemieux, C, Sankoff, D, ...

Although the collection of completely sequenced mitochondrial genomes is expanding rapidly, only recently has a phylogenetically broad representation of mtDNA sequences from protists (mostly...

Chloroplast-like transfer RNA genes expressed in wheat mitochondria.

Joyce, P B, Gray, M W

In the course of a systematic survey of wheat mitochondrial tRNA genes, we have sequenced chloroplast-like serine (trnS-GGA), phenylalanine (trnF-GAA) and cysteine (trnC-GCA) tRNA genes and their...

On the evolutionary descent of organisms and organelles: a global phylogeny based on a highly conserved structural core in small subunit ribosomal RNA.

Gray, M W, Sankoff, D, Cedergren, R J

To probe the earliest evolutionary events attending the origin of the five known genome types (archaebacterial, eubacterial, nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid), we have analyzed sequences...

Nucleotide sequence of an exceptionally long 5.8S ribosomal RNA from Crithidia fasciculata.

Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

In Crithidia fasciculata, a trypanosomatid protozoan, the large ribosomal subunit contains five small RNA species (e, f, g, i, j) in addition to 5S rRNA [Gray, M.W. (1981) Mol. Cell. Biol. 1,...

3'-Terminal sequence of wheat mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: further evidence of a eubacterial evolutionary origin.

Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

We have determined the sequences of the 3'-terminal approximately 100 nucleotides of [5' -32P]pCp-labeled wheat mitochondrial, wheat cytosol, and E. coli small sub-unit rRNAs. Sequence comparison...

Nucleotide sequence of Crithidia fasciculata cytosol 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid.

MacKay, R M, Gray, M W, Doolittle, W F

The complete nucleotide sequence of the cytosol 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid of the trypanosomatid protozoan Crithidia fasciculata has been determined by a combination of T1-oligonucleotide catalog...

Organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome of plants I. The genes for wheat mitochondrial ribosomal and transfer RNA: evidence for an unusual arrangement.

Bonen, L, Gray, M W

We show here that mitochondrial-specific ribosomal and transfer RNAs of wheat (Triticum vulgare Vill. [Triticum aestivum L.] var. Thatcher) are encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Individual...

Is wheat mitochondrial 5S ribosomal RNA prokaryotic in nature?

Gray, M W, Spencer, D F

Küntzel et al. (1981) (Nucleic Acids Res. 9, 1451-1461) recently concluded that the sequence of wheat mitochondrial 5S rRNA is significantly more related to prokaryotic than to eukaryotic 5S rRNA...

Differences in editing at homologous sites in messenger RNAs from angiosperm mitochondria.

Covello, P S, Gray, M W

Recent work has shown that amino acid sequence comparisons can be used to infer sites of C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondrial mRNAs (1). In order to test such predictions further and to search...

Aspartate and asparagine tRNA genes in wheat mitochondrial DNA: a cautionary note on the isolation of tRNA genes from plants.

Joyce, P B, Gray, M W

We have identified genes encoding a "native" tRNA(Asp) (trnD-GTC) and a "chloroplast-like" tRNA(Asn) (trnN-GTT) on opposite strands and 633 bp apart within a sequenced 1640 bp RsaI restriction...

The wheat mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b: absence of a prokaryotic ribosome binding site.

Boer, P H, McIntosh, J E, Gray, M W, Bonen, L

The wheat mitochondrial gene for apocytochrome b (CYB) has been identified by its hybridization to a yeast CYB probe and its nucleotide sequence has been determined. The wheat CYB sequence predicts a...

Wheat embryo mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: evidence for its prokaryotic nature.

Bonen, L, Cunningham, R S, Gray, M W, Doolittle, W F

We present a catalog of sequences of oligonucleotides produced by T1 ribonuclease digestion of 32P-labeled small-ribosomal-subunit RNA ("18S rRNA) isolated from purified wheat embryo mitochondria....

O2'-Methylinosine, a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata.

Gray, M W

A novel nucleoside, O2'-methylinosine (Im), has been identified as a constituent of the ribosomal RNA of Crithidia fasciculata, a hemoflaggelate protozoan. The nucleoside is released as part of an...

Pronounced structural similarities between the small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of wheat mitochondria and Escherichia coli.

Spencer, D F, Schnare, M N, Gray, M W

We present here the nucleotide sequence of the small subunit (18S) rRNA gene from wheat mitochondria. Aside from five discrete variable domains, this gene and the analogous (16S) rRNA gene in...

Accurate transcription of a plant mitochondrial gene in vitro.

Hanic-Joyce, P J, Gray, M W

To investigate transcriptional mechanisms in plant mitochondria, we have developed an accurate and efficient in vitro transcription system consisting of a partially purified wheat mitochondrial...

Unusual pattern of ribonucleic acid components in the ribosome of Crithidia fasciculata, a trypanosomatid protozoan.

Gray, M W

In a previous study from this laboratory, presumptive ribosomal ribonucleic acid (RNA) species were identified in the total cellular RNA directly extracted from intact cells of the trypanosomatid...

Genes for respiratory chain proteins and ribosomal RNAs are present on a 16-kilobase-pair DNA species from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria.

Boer, P H, Bonen, L, Lee, R W, Gray, M W

We have used heterologous hybridization and DNA sequence analysis to determine whether the 16-kilobase-pair (kbp) DNA from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria is the functional equivalent of mtDNA...

Genes encoding a subunit of respiratory NADH dehydrogenase (ND1) and a reverse transcriptase-like protein (RTL) are linked to ribosomal RNA gene pieces in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial DNA.

Boer, P H, Gray, M W

Two long and uninterrupted reading frames, specifying the ND1 and RTL genes, are embedded within fragmented rRNA genes in the 15.8-kb mitochondrial genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular...

Silent mitochondrial and active nuclear genes for subunit 2 of cytochrome c oxidase (cox2) in soybean: evidence for RNA-mediated gene transfer.

Covello, P S, Gray, M W

In most plants and other eukaryotes investigated, the mitochondrial genome carries the gene encoding subunit 2 of cytochrome c oxidase (cox2). In this paper, we show that the previously reported...

The URF 5 gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria: DNA sequence and mode of transcription.

Boer, P H, Gray, M W

A gene homologous to unassigned reading frame (URF) 5 of the mammalian mitochondrial genome has been identified in the mitochondrial DNA of the unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The...

A novel nucleotide incorporation activity implicated in the editing of mitochondrial transfer RNAs in Acanthamoeba castellanii.

Price, D H, Gray, M W

In Acanthamoeba castellanii, most of the mtDNA-encoded tRNAs are edited by a process that replaces one or more of the first three nucleotides at their 5' ends. As a result, base pairing potential is...