Genes encoding pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are not conserved in location in plant genomes and may be subject to diversifying selection

Table 3 Annotation and subcellular localization of PPR-encoding proteins from various plants.

	Gene¹	Subcellular localization²
Brassica	Similar to At1g12300	Mitochondrial
Brassica cosmid P2-9	Similar to At1g12775	None predicted
Brassica cosmid IJC2	Similar to At1g12775	None predicted
Radish Rfo region	G1	None predicted
Arabidopsis chromosome 1, 4.3 Mb region	At1g12620	Mitochondrial
	At1g12700	Mitochondrial
	At1g12775	Mitochondrial
Arabidopsis chromosome 1, 23 Mb region	At1g63070	Mitochondrial
	At1g63080	Mitochondrial
	At1g63130	Mitochondrial
	At1g63150	Mitochondrial
P*	At1g31840	None predicted
P	At5g43820	Mitochondrial
E*	At1g77010	Mitochondrial
E	At2g03380	Mitochondrial
E+*	At1g17630	Possibly mitochondrial
E+	At3g13880	Possibly mitochondrial
DYW*	At1g59720	None predicted
DYW	At5g13230	Mitochondrial
PLS*	At1g14470	None predicted
PLS	At4g18520	Possibly mitochondrial

¹ All gene entries beginning with "At" are from Arabidopsis thaliana.
² Subcellular localization was predicted by Mitoprot and Predotar online programs.
* Letter codes correspond to subgroups of PPR-encoding genes as defined by Lurin et al. (2004)

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