Figure 1.

(A) cDNA and deduced amino acid sequence of the rice nuclear-encoded rps14 gene. The RPS14-homologous region is indicated by a bent arrow. A region homologous to SDHB is underlined. The intron site is marked by an arrowhead. (B) Amino acid sequence comparison of RPS14. Deduced amino acid sequence of rice nuclear rps14 gene (this study) is aligned with amino acid sequences of mitochondrial rps14 genes from rice (this study), broadbean (17), Oenothera (18), rapeseed (19), and liverwort (3). Amino acid residues identical to rice nuclear RPS14 are indicated by dots. Gaps are shown by dashes. An asterisk represents a translational stop codon that truncates an ORF of rice mitochondrial rps14 sequence. Frameshift in the rps14-coding region of rice mitochondria was not considered here.