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Walpole TB, Palmer DN, Jiang H, Ding S, Fearnley IM, Walker JE. Conservation of complete trimethylation of lysine-43 in the rotor ring of c-subunits of metazoan adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthases. Mol Cell Proteomics 2015; 14:828-40. [PMID: 25608518 PMCID: PMC4390263 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m114.047456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Revised: 01/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The rotors of ATP synthases turn about 100 times every second. One essential component of the rotor is a ring of hydrophobic c-subunits in the membrane domain of the enzyme. The rotation of these c-rings is driven by a transmembrane proton-motive force, and they turn against a surface provided by another membrane protein, known as subunit a. Together, the rotating c-ring and the static subunit a provide a pathway for protons through the membrane in which the c-ring and subunit a are embedded. Vertebrate and invertebrate c-subunits are well conserved. In the structure of the bovine F1-ATPase-c-ring subcomplex, the 75 amino acid c-subunit is folded into two transmembrane α-helices linked by a short loop. Each bovine rotor-ring consists of eight c-subunits with the N- and C-terminal α-helices forming concentric inner and outer rings, with the loop regions exposed to the phospholipid head-group region on the matrix side of the inner membrane. Lysine-43 is in the loop region and its ε-amino group is completely trimethylated. The role of this modification is unknown. If the trimethylated lysine-43 plays some important role in the functioning, assembly or degradation of the c-ring, it would be expected to persist throughout vertebrates and possibly invertebrates also. Therefore, we have carried out a proteomic analysis of c-subunits across representative species from different classes of vertebrates and from invertebrate phyla. In the twenty-nine metazoan species that have been examined, the complete methylation of lysine-43 is conserved, and it is likely to be conserved throughout the more than two million extant metazoan species. In unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes, when the lysine is conserved it is unmethylated, and the stoichiometries of c-subunits vary from 9-15. One possible role for the trimethylated residue is to provide a site for the specific binding of cardiolipin, an essential component of ATP synthases in mitochondria.
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- Thomas B Walpole
- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and
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- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and the §Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty, Lincoln University, 7647, New Zealand
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- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and the §Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty, Lincoln University, 7647, New Zealand
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- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and
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- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and
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- From the ‡Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom and
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Peptide deformylase (PDF) catalyses the hydrolytic removal of the N-terminal formyl group from nascent ribosome-synthesised polypeptides. Its activity is essential and it is present in all eubacteria. It is also present in the organelles of some eukaryotes. PDF represents a novel class of mononuclear iron protein, utilising an Fe(2+) ion to catalyse the hydrolysis of an amide bond. Due to its extreme lability, isolation and characterisation of PDF was not possible until very recently. This review will discuss the recent progress in the elucidation of the the structure and function of PDF, evaluating its suitability as a target for antibiotic design and summarising the current approaches to designing drugs that target PDF.
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- D Pei
- Department of Chemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio StateUniversity, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Vial L, Gomez P, Panvert M, Schmitt E, Blanquet S, Mechulam Y. Mitochondrial methionyl-tRNAfMet formyltransferase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae: gene disruption and tRNA substrate specificity. Biochemistry 2003; 42:932-9. [PMID: 12549912 DOI: 10.1021/bi026901x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts involves a formylated methionyl-tRNA species. Formylation of this tRNA is catalyzed by a methionyl-tRNA(f)(Met) formyltransferase (formylase). Upon inactivation of the gene encoding formylase, the growth rate of Escherichia coli is severely decreased. This behavior underlines the importance of formylation to give tRNA(Met) an initiator identity. Surprisingly, however, recent data [Li, Y., Holmes, W. B., Appling, D. R., and RajBhandary, U. L. (2000) J. Bacteriol. 182, 2886-2892] showed that the respiratory growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiaewas not sensitive to deprivation of the mitochondrial formylase. In the present study, we report conditions of temperature or of growth medium composition in which inactivation of the formylase gene indeed impairs the growth of a S. cerevisiae haploid strain. Therefore, some selective advantage can eventually be associated to the existence of a formylating activity in the fungal mitochondrion under severe growth conditions. Finally, the specificity toward tRNA of S. cerevisiae mitochondrial formylase was studied using E. coli initiator tRNA and mutants derived from it. Like its bacterial counterpart, this formylase recognizes nucleotidic features in the acceptor stem of mitochondrial initiator tRNA. This behavior markedly distinguishes the mitochondrial formylase of yeast from that of animals. Indeed, it was shown that bovine mitochondrial formylase mainly recognizes the side chain of the esterified methionine plus a purine-pyrimidine base pair in the D-stem of tRNA [Takeuchi, N., Vial, L., Panvert, M., Schmitt, E., Watanabe, K., Mechulam, Y., and Blanquet, S. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276, 20064-20068]. Distinct tRNA recognition mechanisms adopted by the formylases of prokaryotic, fungal, or mammalian origins are likely to reflect coevolution of these enzymes with their tRNA substrate. Each mechanism appears well suited to an efficient selection of the substrate within the pool of all tRNAs.
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- Lionel Vial
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7654, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Dirk LMA, Williams MA, Houtz RL. Specificity of chloroplast-localized peptide deformylases as determined with peptide analogs of chloroplast-translated proteins. Arch Biochem Biophys 2002; 406:135-41. [PMID: 12234499 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00426-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Peptide deformylase (DEF; EC 3.5.1.88) removes the N-formyl group from nascent polypeptides. Two nuclear-encoded DEFs in Arabidopsis thaliana (At) are localized to chloroplasts, and thus, the N-termini of chloroplast-translated proteins may be a consequence of AtDEFs' substrate specificity. Using peptide analogs of select chloroplast-translated proteins, AtDEF1 activity was as much as 100-fold lower than AtDEF2 activity and showed little variance with peptide sequence. However, AtDEF2 activity was significantly influenced by peptide sequence, with the most efficiently processed substrate mimicking the N-terminus of the nascent D1 polypeptide, a core protein of photosystem II. Though AtDEF2's specificity was predictive of N-formyl retention for some chloroplast proteins, exceptions suggests that additional factors in vivo aid in determining the retention of an N-formyl group.
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- Lynnette M A Dirk
- Department of Horticulture, Plant Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program, N-32-D Agricultural Science Center North, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA
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Dirk LM, Williams MA, Houtz RL. Eukaryotic peptide deformylases. Nuclear-encoded and chloroplast-targeted enzymes in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 127:97-107. [PMID: 11553738 PMCID: PMC117966 DOI: 10.1104/pp.127.1.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2001] [Revised: 05/13/2001] [Accepted: 06/14/2001] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Arabidopsis (ecotype Columbia-0) genes, AtDEF1 and AtDEF2, represent eukaryotic homologs of the essential prokaryotic gene encoding peptide deformylase. Both deduced proteins contain three conserved protein motifs found in the active site of all eubacterial peptide deformylases, and N-terminal extensions identifiable as chloroplast-targeting sequences. Radiolabeled full-length AtDEF1 was imported and processed by isolated pea (Pisum sativum L. Laxton's Progress No. 9) chloroplasts and AtDEF1 and 2 were immunologically detected in Arabidopsis leaf and chloroplast stromal protein extracts. The partial cDNAs encoding the processed forms of Arabidopsis peptide deformylase 1 and 2 (pAtDEF1 and 2, respectively) were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified using C-terminal hexahistidyl tags. Both recombinant Arabidopsis peptide deformylases had peptide deformylase activity with unique kinetic parameters that differed from those reported for the E. coli enzyme. Actinonin, a specific peptide deformylase inhibitor, was effective in vitro against Arabidopsis peptide deformylase 1 and 2 activity, respectively. Exposure of several plant species including Arabidopsis to actinonin resulted in chlorosis and severe reductions in plant growth and development. The results suggest an essential role for peptide deformylase in protein processing in all plant plastids.
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- L M Dirk
- Department of Horticulture, N-323 Agricultural Science Center North, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0091, USA
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Li Y, Holmes WB, Appling DR, RajBhandary UL. Initiation of protein synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria without formylation of the initiator tRNA. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:2886-92. [PMID: 10781559 PMCID: PMC101999 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.10.2886-2892.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Protein synthesis in eukaryotic organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts is widely believed to require a formylated initiator methionyl tRNA (fMet-tRNA(fMet)) for initiation. Here we show that initiation of protein synthesis in yeast mitochondria can occur without formylation of the initiator methionyl-tRNA (Met-tRNA(fMet)). The formylation reaction is catalyzed by methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase (MTF) located in mitochondria and uses N(10)-formyltetrahydrofolate (10-formyl-THF) as the formyl donor. We have studied yeast mutants carrying chromosomal disruptions of the genes encoding the mitochondrial C(1)-tetrahydrofolate (C(1)-THF) synthase (MIS1), necessary for synthesis of 10-formyl-THF, and the methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase (open reading frame YBL013W; designated FMT1). A direct analysis of mitochondrial tRNAs using gel electrophoresis systems that can separate fMet-tRNA(fMet), Met-tRNA(fMet), and tRNA(fMet) shows that there is no formylation in vivo of the mitochondrial initiator Met-tRNA in these strains. In contrast, the initiator Met-tRNA is formylated in the respective "wild-type" parental strains. In spite of the absence of fMet-tRNA(fMet), the mutant strains exhibited normal mitochondrial protein synthesis and function, as evidenced by normal growth on nonfermentable carbon sources in rich media and normal frequencies of generation of petite colonies. The only growth phenotype observed was a longer lag time during growth on nonfermentable carbon sources in minimal media for the mis1 deletion strain but not for the fmt1 deletion strain.
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- Y Li
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Meinnel T, Lazennec C, Villoing S, Blanquet S. Structure-function relationships within the peptide deformylase family. Evidence for a conserved architecture of the active site involving three conserved motifs and a metal ion. J Mol Biol 1997; 267:749-61. [PMID: 9126850 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Thermus thermophilus peptide deformylase was characterized. Its enzymatic properties as well as its organization in domains proved to share close resemblances with those of the Escherichia coli enzyme despite few sequence identities. In addition to the HEXXH signature sequence of the zinc metalloprotease family, a second short stretch of strictly conserved amino acids was noticed, EGCLS, the cysteine of which corresponds to the third zinc ligand. The study of site-directed mutants of the E. coli deformylase shows that the residues of this stretch are crucial for the structure and/or catalytic efficiency of the active enzyme. Both aforementioned sequences were used as markers of the peptide deformylase family in protein sequence databases. Seven sequences coming from Haemophilus influenzae, Lactococcus lactis, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Bacillus subtilus and Synechocystis sp. could be identified. The characterization of the product of the open reading frame from B. stearothermophilus confirmed that it actually corresponded to a peptide deformylase with properties similar to those of the E. coli enzyme. Alignment of the nine peptide deformylase sequences showed that, in addition to the two above sequences, only a third one, GXGXAAXQ, is strictly conserved. This motif is also located in the active site according to the three-dimensional structure of the E. coli enzyme. Site-directed variants of E. coli peptide deformylase showed the involvement of the corresponding residues for maintaining an active and stable enzyme. Altogether, these data allow us to propose that the three identified conserved motifs of peptide deformylases build up the active site around a metal ion. Finally, an analysis of the location of the other conserved residues, in particular of the hydrophobic ones, was performed using the three-dimensional model of the E. coli enzyme. This enables us to suggest that all bacterial peptide deformylases adopt a constant overall tertiary structure.
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- T Meinnel
- Unite de Recherche Associee n 1970 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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Meinnel T, Blanquet S. Evidence that peptide deformylase and methionyl-tRNA(fMet) formyltransferase are encoded within the same operon in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:7737-40. [PMID: 8244948 PMCID: PMC206938 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.23.7737-7740.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Overexpression of the fms gene, the first translation unit of a dicistronic operon that also encodes methionyl-tRNA(fMet) formyltransferase in Escherichia coli, sustains the overproduction of peptide deformylase activity in crude extracts. This suggests that the fms gene encodes the peptide deformylase. Moreover, the fms gene product has a motif characteristic of metalloproteases, an activity compatible with deformylase. The corresponding protein could be purified to homogeneity. However, its enzymatic activity could not be retained during the purification procedure. As could be expected from the occurrence in its amino acid sequence of a zinc-binding motif characteristic of metallopeptidases, the purified fms product displayed one tightly bound zinc atom.
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- T Meinnel
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, Unité de Recherche Associée, no. 240 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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Sherriff RM, Broom MF, Chadwick VS. Isolation and purification of N-formylmethionine aminopeptidase from rat intestine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1119:275-80. [PMID: 1547272 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90214-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The intestinal mucosal epithelium is exposed to products of intestinal bacteria including potent inflammatory N-formylmethionyl oligopeptides. An N-formylmethionine aminopeptidase has been purified 2300-fold from rat intestine and was shown to degrade natural fMet oligopeptides from Escherichia coli culture supernatants with loss of bioactivity (release of specific granule constituents from human polymorphonuclear leucocytes) and immuno-reactivity (assessed using a polyclonal anti-fMet-Leu-Phe antiserum). The enzyme which was specific for N-terminal acyl-methionine residues had a native Mr of 340,000 and comprised four sub-units of Mr 82,000. The presence of this enzyme in intestinal mucosa could prevent absorption of intact bioactive fMet peptides produced by commensal bacteria in the gut lumen.
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- R M Sherriff
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Wellcome Medical Research Institute, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Broom MF, Sherriff RM, Tate WP, Collings J, Chadwick VS. Partial purification and characterization of a formylmethionine deformylase from rat small intestine. Biochem J 1989; 257:51-6. [PMID: 2920026 PMCID: PMC1135536 DOI: 10.1042/bj2570051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A formylmethionine deformylase from rat small-intestinal mucosa has been isolated, characterized and partially purified. The enzyme catalyses the release of equimolar amounts of formate and the free amino acid. The deformylase was active against formylmethionine (Km 7.1 mM) and formylnorleucine, but showed reduced activity against formyl-leucine. It was inactive against a range of other polar and nonpolar formyl-amino acids and against formyl di- and tri-peptides. The Mr of the native enzyme was between 45,000 and 66,000, as determined by h.p.l.c. gel permeation. Further purification of the enzyme either by h.p.l.c. ion-exchange chromatography and concanavalin A-Sepharose or by isoelectric focusing yielded a preparation with one predominant band of Mr 50,000 on SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Bacteria in the intestine present the host with substantial amounts of formylmethionine (fMet) from proteinase and carboxypeptidase digestion of bacterial formyl-peptides in the intestinal lumen. fMet (0.01-1.0 mM) inhibited translation of a test RNA from brome mosaic virus in vitro, indicating that it could have adverse effects on cellular metabolism. Gut epithelial fMet deformylase may be required for deformylation of this exogenous (bacterial) and also endogenous (mitochondrial) fMet.
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- M F Broom
- Wellcome Medical Research Institute, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Attardi G. Animal mitochondrial DNA: an extreme example of genetic economy. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1985; 93:93-145. [PMID: 3891661 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61373-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Ashraf J, Jayaraman J. Does more than one mitochondrially synthesized protein in yeast have larger precursors? Biosci Rep 1982; 2:419-26. [PMID: 7049264 DOI: 10.1007/bf01119305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Yeast cells undergoing derepression (the phase of mitochondriogenesis) were exposed to [14C]formate in the presence of cycloheximide, the cytosolic protein synthesis inhibitor, and of 1,10-phenanthroline, a metallo-protease inhibitor. Extensive labelling was obtained under such conditions. Incubation of these labelled products with mitochondrial lysates released small peptides (mol. wt. 500-1000). These results indicate that mitochondria probably synthesize some of the proteins in the precursor form and they are processed by a specific matrix-located protease before proper integration.
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Lucchini G, Bianchetti R. Initiation of protein synthesis in isolated mitochondria and chloroplasts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1980; 608:54-61. [PMID: 6992873 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(80)90133-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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N5-Formyltetrahydrofolate, a competitive inhibitor of the formylation of the initiator Met-tRNAfMet in an in vitro assay, is a powerful inhibitor of amino acid incorporation in isolated Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria and in Euglena gracilis chloroplasts. Thus, a large part of the incorporation is dependent upon new initiation acts. On the contrary, the rate of incorporation can be largely increased by addition of the specific formyl group donor, N10-formyltetrahydrofolate. Experiments are also reported strongly suggesting that the formylation of Met-tRNAfMet is an absolute requirement in order to initiate protein synthesis in chloroplasts, as has been shown in mitochondria.
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Egilsson V, Evans IH, Wilkie D. Toxic and mutagenic effects of carcinogens on the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1979; 174:39-46. [PMID: 384160 DOI: 10.1007/bf00433303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Nineteen haploid yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) strains were used to assess the relative growth inhibitory potencies on fermentable vs. non-fermentable media of a collection of carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic chemicals. The majority of carcinogens were distinctly more potent on the non-fermentable (glycerol) medium, where mitochrondrial function is required for growth, than on the fermentable medium, where it is not. The anti-mitochondrial selectivity indicated by these growth tests was much slighter for the non-carcinogens. Similarly most carcinogens induced the cytoplasmic petite mutation whereas the non-carcinogens did not. Five carcinogens which were tested impaired the development of cytochromes aa3 and b in glucose cultures. Six carcinogens, when tested, inhibited growth on three fermentable sugars, the utilisation of which requires mitochondrial function. Out of five carcinogens which were examined, four suppressed the surface-dependent phenomenon of fluocculence in a flocculating strain of yeast, at concentrations primarily affecting the mitochondrial system; the fifth had a similar but less pronounced effect.
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Crosti P, Gambini A, Lucchini G, Bianchetti R. Eukaryotic N10-formyl-H4folate:methionyl-tRNAf transformylase. Some properties of the Euglena gracilis enzyme. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1977; 477:356-70. [PMID: 407934 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(77)90254-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Dependence of mitochondrial protein synthesis initiation on formylation of the initiator methionyl-tRNAf. J Biol Chem 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)40489-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The effects of erythromycin, chloramphenicol, cycloheximide, pyrimethamine, chromate, cadmium, lead, nickel, 4-nitro-quinoline-1-oxide and thioacetamide on yeast and human cells were studied. Inhibition of the synthesis of mitochondrial proteins resulted in the loss of cytochromes as well as in morphological changes in the cellular membranes and mitotic arrest. The data are discussed.
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Highfield PE, Ellis RJ. Protein synthesis in chloroplasts. VII. Initiation of protein synthesis in isolated intact pea chloroplasts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 447:20-7. [PMID: 963079 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(76)90091-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Isolated intact pea chloroplasts use light energy to synthesise N-formayl [35S]-methionylpuromycin when incubated with L-[35S]methionine and puromycin. Control experiments establish that this synthesis occurs on chloroplast ribosomes, and not on contaminating mitochondrial or bacterial ribosomes. The amount of N-formylmethionylpuromycin formed suggests that each messenger RNA that is being translated in vitro undergoes initiation at least twice. We conclude that isolated, intact pea chloroplasts carry out the initiation of protein synthesis, as well as the elongation and termination of polypeptide chains.
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Kirk D, Mittwoch U, Stone AB, Wilkie D. Limited ability of thymidine to relieve mitotic inhibition by pyrimethamine in human fibroblasts. Biochem Pharmacol 1976; 25:681-5. [PMID: 1275950 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(76)90244-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Cocucci M, Rossi GF, Vandoni T. Adaptation of the mitochondrial systems of Rhodotorula gracilis to low oxygen pressure. CELL DIFFERENTIATION 1975; 4:155-65. [PMID: 167986 DOI: 10.1016/0045-6039(75)90037-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The obligate aerobic yeast, Rhodotorula gracilis, was grown in a liquid minimal medium at 1 mm Hg partial pressure of oxygen, conditions under which growth (measured as the increase in total protein) is reduced to 30% of the maximum rate. A significant increase in the ratio between mitochondrial oxidative enzymes and total protein occurs rapidly under these conditions. A concurrent increase in the ratio area of mitochondria/area of cytoplasm was also observed. The relative increase in mitochondrial enzymes, oxidase activities and mitochondrial membranes is due to the inhibition affecting the increase in cytoplasmic structures more significantly than the increase in mitochondrial structures at low pO2. The difference between mitochondrial and cytoplasmic syntheses cannot be ascribed to changes in the availability of ATP but it might rest with some other oxygen-utilising process (pyrimidine redox coenzymes, synthesis of sterols). The experimental conditions studied appear to offer a valuable tool for the investigation of the relationships between mitochondrial and cytoplasmic structures.
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Schiffmann E, Corcoran BA, Wahl SM. N-formylmethionyl peptides as chemoattractants for leucocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1975; 72:1059-62. [PMID: 1093163 PMCID: PMC432465 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.72.3.1059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 658] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Leucocytes such as neutrophils are attracted by N-formylmethionine, but not by methionine. Di- and tripeptides containing formylmethionine are strong attractants for both neutrophils and macrophages, whereas the corresponding nonacylated compounds are not chemotactic. The formylated peptides may be related to an incompletely characterized chemotactic material normally produced by bacteria which attract the same animal cells.
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Holzer H, Betz H, Ebner E. Intracellular proteinases in microorganisms. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1975; 9:103-56. [PMID: 1091413 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152809-6.50011-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Lucchini G, Bianchetti R, Crosti P. Puromycin dependent formation of initial peptides as a method to measure the initiation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1973; 51:144-50. [PMID: 4573071 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(73)90520-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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