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The jakobid flagellates are bacteriovorus protists with mitochondrial genomes that are the most ancestral identified to date, in that they most resemble the genomes of the α-proteobacterial ancestors of the mitochondrion. Because of the bacterial character of jakobid mitochondrial genomes, it was expected that mechanisms for gene expression and RNA structures would be bacterial in nature. However, sequencing of the mitochondrial genome of the jakobid  Seculamonas ecuadoriensis  revealed several apparent mismatches in the acceptor stems of two predicted tRNAs. To investigate this observation, we determined the cDNA sequences of these tRNAs by RT-PCR. Our results show that the last three positions of the 3′ extremity, plus the discriminator position of seryl and glutamyl tRNAs, are altered posttranscriptionally, restoring orthodox base-pairing and replacing the discriminator with an adenosine residue, in an editing process that resembles that of the metazoan  Lithobius forficatus . However, the most 5′ of the edited nucleotides is occasionally left unedited, indicating that the editing mechanism proceeds initially by exonucleolytic degradation, followed by repair of the degraded region. This 3′ tRNA editing mechanism is likely distinct from that of  L. forficatus , despite the apparent similarities between the two systems.

Mitochondrial 3′ tRNA editing in the jakobid Seculamonas ecuadoriensis: A novel mechanism and implications for tRNA processing