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Moe A, Dimogkioka AR, Rapaport D, Öjemyr LN, Brzezinski P. Structure and function of the S. pombe III-IV-cyt c supercomplex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2307697120. [PMID: 37939086 PMCID: PMC10655221 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307697120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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The respiratory chain in aerobic organisms is composed of a number of membrane-bound protein complexes that link electron transfer to proton translocation across the membrane. In mitochondria, the final electron acceptor, complex IV (CIV), receives electrons from dimeric complex III (CIII2), via a mobile electron carrier, cytochrome c. In the present study, we isolated the CIII2CIV supercomplex from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and determined its structure with bound cyt. c using single-particle electron cryomicroscopy. A respiratory supercomplex factor 2 was found to be bound at CIV distally positioned in the supercomplex. In addition to the redox-active metal sites, we found a metal ion, presumably Zn2+, coordinated in the CIII subunit Cor1, which is encoded by the same gene (qcr1) as the mitochondrial-processing peptidase subunit β. Our data show that the isolated CIII2CIV supercomplex displays proteolytic activity suggesting a dual role of CIII2 in S. pombe. As in the supercomplex from S. cerevisiae, subunit Cox5 of CIV faces towards one CIII monomer, but in S. pombe, the two complexes are rotated relative to each other by ~45°. This orientation yields equal distances between the cyt. c binding sites at CIV and at each of the two CIII monomers. The structure shows cyt. c bound at four positions, but only along one of the two symmetrical branches. Overall, this combined structural and functional study reveals the integration of peptidase activity with the CIII2 respiratory system and indicates a two-dimensional cyt. c diffusion mechanism within the CIII2-CIV supercomplex.
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- Agnes Moe
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, StockholmSE-106 91, Sweden
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- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen72076, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen72076, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, StockholmSE-106 91, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, StockholmSE-106 91, Sweden
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Fielden LF, Busch JD, Merkt SG, Ganesan I, Steiert C, Hasselblatt HB, Busto JV, Wirth C, Zufall N, Jungbluth S, Noll K, Dung JM, Butenko L, von der Malsburg K, Koch HG, Hunte C, van der Laan M, Wiedemann N. Central role of Tim17 in mitochondrial presequence protein translocation. Nature 2023; 621:627-634. [PMID: 37527780 PMCID: PMC10511324 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06477-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
Abstract
The presequence translocase of the mitochondrial inner membrane (TIM23) represents the major route for the import of nuclear-encoded proteins into mitochondria1,2. About 60% of more than 1,000 different mitochondrial proteins are synthesized with amino-terminal targeting signals, termed presequences, which form positively charged amphiphilic α-helices3,4. TIM23 sorts the presequence proteins into the inner membrane or matrix. Various views, including regulatory and coupling functions, have been reported on the essential TIM23 subunit Tim17 (refs. 5-7). Here we mapped the interaction of Tim17 with matrix-targeted and inner membrane-sorted preproteins during translocation in the native membrane environment. We show that Tim17 contains conserved negative charges close to the intermembrane space side of the bilayer, which are essential to initiate presequence protein translocation along a distinct transmembrane cavity of Tim17 for both classes of preproteins. The amphiphilic character of mitochondrial presequences directly matches this Tim17-dependent translocation mechanism. This mechanism permits direct lateral release of transmembrane segments of inner membrane-sorted precursors into the inner membrane.
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- Laura F Fielden
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, PZMS, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, PZMS, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, PZMS, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- CIBSS-Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- BIOSS-Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Signaling, PZMS, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ZBMZ, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- CIBSS-Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- BIOSS-Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Matsushita-Morita M, Tada S, Suzuki S, Hattori R, Kusumoto KI. Enzymatic characterization of a novel Xaa-Pro aminopeptidase XpmA from Aspergillus oryzae expressed in Escherichia coli. J Biosci Bioeng 2017; 124:534-541. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2017.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Amata O, Marino T, Russo N, Toscano M. A Proposal for Mitochondrial Processing Peptidase Catalytic Mechanism. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:17824-31. [DOI: 10.1021/ja207065v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Orazio Amata
- Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per Elaborazioni Parallele e Distribuite-Centro d'Eccellenza MURST, Universita' della Calabria, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per Elaborazioni Parallele e Distribuite-Centro d'Eccellenza MURST, Universita' della Calabria, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per Elaborazioni Parallele e Distribuite-Centro d'Eccellenza MURST, Universita' della Calabria, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per Elaborazioni Parallele e Distribuite-Centro d'Eccellenza MURST, Universita' della Calabria, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Gel-based mass spectrometric and computational approaches to the mitochondrial proteome of Neurospora. Fungal Genet Biol 2011; 48:526-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2010] [Revised: 11/24/2010] [Accepted: 11/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Wong YH, Arellano SM, Zhang H, Ravasi T, Qian PY. Dependency on de novo protein synthesis and proteomic changes during metamorphosis of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina. Proteome Sci 2010; 8:25. [PMID: 20497544 PMCID: PMC2890537 DOI: 10.1186/1477-5956-8-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2010] [Accepted: 05/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Metamorphosis in the bryozoan Bugula neritina (Linne) includes an initial phase of rapid morphological rearrangement followed by a gradual phase of morphogenesis. We hypothesized that the first phase may be independent of de novo synthesis of proteins and, instead, involves post-translational modifications of existing proteins, providing a simple mechanism to quickly initiate metamorphosis. To test our hypothesis, we challenged B. neritina larvae with transcription and translation inhibitors. Furthermore, we employed 2D gel electrophoresis to characterize changes in the phosphoproteome and proteome during early metamorphosis. Differentially expressed proteins were identified by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and their gene expression patterns were profiled using semi-quantitative real time PCR. Results When larvae were incubated with transcription and translation inhibitors, metamorphosis initiated through the first phase but did not complete. We found a significant down-regulation of 60 protein spots and the percentage of phosphoprotein spots decreased from 15% in the larval stage to12% during early metamorphosis. Two proteins--the mitochondrial processing peptidase beta subunit and severin--were abundantly expressed and phosphorylated in the larval stage, but down-regulated during metamorphosis. MPPbeta and severin were also down-regulated on the gene expression level. Conclusions The initial morphogenetic changes that led to attachment of B. neritina did not depend on de novo protein synthesis, but the subsequent gradual morphogenesis did. This is the first time that the mitochondrial processing peptidase beta subunit or severin have been shown to be down-regulated on both gene and protein expression levels during the metamorphosis of B. neritina. Future studies employing immunohistochemistry to reveal the expression locality of these two proteins during metamorphosis should provide further evidence of the involvement of these two proteins in the morphogenetic rearrangement of B. neritina.
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- Yue Him Wong
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR.
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Piao L, Li Y, Yang KJ, Park KA, Byun HS, Won M, Hong J, Kim JL, Kweon GR, Hur GM, Seok JH, Cho JY, Chun T, Hess D, Sack R, Maira SM, Brazil DP, Hemmings BA, Park J. Heat shock protein 70-mediated sensitization of cells to apoptosis by Carboxyl-Terminal Modulator Protein. BMC Cell Biol 2009; 10:53. [PMID: 19604401 PMCID: PMC2729731 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-10-53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The serine/threonine protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) is involved in insulin signaling, cellular survival, and transformation. Carboxyl-terminal modulator protein (CTMP) has been identified as a novel PKB binding partner in a yeast two-hybrid screen, and appears to be a negative PKB regulator with tumor suppressor-like properties. In the present study we investigate novel mechanisms by which CTMP plays a role in apoptosis process. RESULTS CTMP is localized to mitochondria. Furthermore, CTMP becomes phosphorylated following the treatment of cells with pervanadate, an insulin-mimetic. Two serine residues (Ser37 and Ser38) were identified as novel in vivo phosphorylation sites of CTMP. Association of CTMP and heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) inhibits the formation of complexes containing apoptotic protease activating factor 1 and Hsp70. Overexpression of CTMP increased the sensitivity of cells to apoptosis, most likely due to the inhibition of Hsp70 function. CONCLUSION Our data suggest that phosphorylation on Ser37/Ser38 of CTMP is important for the prevention of mitochondrial localization of CTMP, eventually leading to cell death by binding to Hsp70. In addition to its role in PKB inhibition, CTMP may therefore play a key role in mitochondria-mediated apoptosis by localizing to mitochondria.
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- Longzhen Piao
- Department of Pharmacology, Daejeon Regional Cancer Center, Cancer Research Institute, Research Institute for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Taejeon, 301-131, Korea.
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Huang S, Taylor NL, Whelan J, Millar AH. Refining the definition of plant mitochondrial presequences through analysis of sorting signals, N-terminal modifications, and cleavage motifs. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 150:1272-85. [PMID: 19474214 PMCID: PMC2705053 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.137885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 05/20/2009] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Mitochondrial protein import is a complex multistep process from synthesis of proteins in the cytosol, recognition by receptors on the organelle surface, to translocation across one or both mitochondrial membranes and assembly after removal of the targeting signal, referred to as a presequence. In plants, import has to further discriminate between mitochondria and chloroplasts. In this study, we determined the precise cleavage sites in the presequences for Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and rice (Oryza sativa) mitochondrial proteins using mass spectrometry by comparing the precursor sequences with experimental evidence of the amino-terminal peptide from mature proteins. We validated this method by assessments of false-positive rates and comparisons with previous available data using Edman degradation. In total, the cleavable presequences of 62 proteins from Arabidopsis and 52 proteins from rice mitochondria were determined. None of these proteins contained amino-terminal acetylation, in contrast to recent findings for chloroplast stromal proteins. Furthermore, the classical matrix glutamate dehydrogenase was detected with intact and amino-terminal acetylated sequences, indicating that it is imported into mitochondria without a cleavable targeting signal. Arabidopsis and rice mitochondrial presequences had similar isoelectric points, hydrophobicity, and the predicted ability to form an amphiphilic alpha-helix at the amino-terminal region of the presequence, but variations in length, amino acid composition, and cleavage motifs for mitochondrial processing peptidase were observed. A combination of lower hydrophobicity and start point of the amino-terminal alpha-helix in mitochondrial presequences in both Arabidopsis and rice distinguished them (98%) from Arabidopsis chloroplast stroma transit peptides. Both Arabidopsis and rice mitochondrial cleavage sites could be grouped into three classes, with conserved -3R (class II) and -2R (class I) or without any conserved (class III) arginines. Class II was dominant in both Arabidopsis and rice (55%-58%), but in rice sequences there was much less frequently a phenylalanine (F) in the -1 position of the cleavage site than in Arabidopsis sequences. Our data also suggest a novel cleavage motif of (F/Y) downward arrow(S/A) in plant class III sequences.
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- Shaobai Huang
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, M316, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Scheckhuber CQ, Grief J, Boilan E, Luce K, Debacq-Chainiaux F, Rittmeyer C, Gredilla R, Kolbesen BO, Toussaint O, Osiewacz HD. Age-related cellular copper dynamics in the fungal ageing model Podospora anserina and in ageing human fibroblasts. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4919. [PMID: 19305496 PMCID: PMC2654708 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2009] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
In previous investigations an impact of cellular copper homeostasis on ageing of the ascomycete Podospora anserina has been demonstrated. Here we provide new data indicating that mitochondria play a major role in this process. Determination of copper in the cytosolic fraction using total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy analysis and eGfp reporter gene studies indicate an age-related increase of cytosolic copper levels. We show that components of the mitochondrial matrix (i.e. eGFP targeted to mitochondria) become released from the organelle during ageing. Decreasing the accessibility of mitochondrial copper in P. anserina via targeting a copper metallothionein to the mitochondrial matrix was found to result in a switch from a copper-dependent cytochrome-c oxidase to a copper-independent alternative oxidase type of respiration and results in lifespan extension. In addition, we demonstrate that increased copper concentrations in the culture medium lead to the appearance of senescence biomarkers in human diploid fibroblasts (HDFs). Significantly, expression of copper-regulated genes is induced during in vitro ageing in medium devoid of excess copper suggesting that cytosolic copper levels also increase during senescence of HDFs. These data suggest that the identified molecular pathway of age-dependent copper dynamics may not be restricted to P. anserina but may be conserved from lower eukaryotes to humans.
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- Christian Q. Scheckhuber
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Research Unit on Cellular Biology, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Research Unit on Cellular Biology, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Šmíd O, Matušková A, Harris SR, Kučera T, Novotný M, Horváthová L, Hrdý I, Kutějová E, Hirt RP, Embley TM, Janata J, Tachezy J. Reductive evolution of the mitochondrial processing peptidases of the unicellular parasites trichomonas vaginalis and giardia intestinalis. PLoS Pathog 2008; 4:e1000243. [PMID: 19096520 PMCID: PMC2597178 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2008] [Accepted: 11/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidases are heterodimeric enzymes (alpha/betaMPP) that play an essential role in mitochondrial biogenesis by recognizing and cleaving the targeting presequences of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins. The two subunits are paralogues that probably evolved by duplication of a gene for a monomeric metallopeptidase from the endosymbiotic ancestor of mitochondria. Here, we characterize the MPP-like proteins from two important human parasites that contain highly reduced versions of mitochondria, the mitosomes of Giardia intestinalis and the hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis. Our biochemical characterization of recombinant proteins showed that, contrary to a recent report, the Trichomonas processing peptidase functions efficiently as an alpha/beta heterodimer. By contrast, and so far uniquely among eukaryotes, the Giardia processing peptidase functions as a monomer comprising a single betaMPP-like catalytic subunit. The structure and surface charge distribution of the Giardia processing peptidase predicted from a 3-D protein model appear to have co-evolved with the properties of Giardia mitosomal targeting sequences, which, unlike classic mitochondrial targeting signals, are typically short and impoverished in positively charged residues. The majority of hydrogenosomal presequences resemble those of mitosomes, but longer, positively charged mitochondrial-type presequences were also identified, consistent with the retention of the Trichomonas alphaMPP-like subunit. Our computational and experimental/functional analyses reveal that the divergent processing peptidases of Giardia mitosomes and Trichomonas hydrogenosomes evolved from the same ancestral heterodimeric alpha/betaMPP metallopeptidase as did the classic mitochondrial enzyme. The unique monomeric structure of the Giardia enzyme, and the co-evolving properties of the Giardia enzyme and substrate, provide a compelling example of the power of reductive evolution to shape parasite biology.
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- Ondřej Šmíd
- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Burri L, Keeling PJ. Protein targeting in parasites with cryptic mitochondria. Int J Parasitol 2006; 37:265-72. [PMID: 17250838 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2006] [Revised: 12/05/2006] [Accepted: 12/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Many highly specialised parasites have adapted to their environments by simplifying different aspects of their morphology or biochemistry. One interesting case is the mitochondrion, which has been subject to strong reductive evolution in parallel in several different parasitic groups. In extreme cases, mitochondria have degenerated so much in physical size and functional complexity that they were not immediately recognised as mitochondria, and are now referred to as 'cryptic'. Cryptic mitochondrion-derived organelles can be classified as either hydrogenosomes or mitosomes. In nearly all cases they lack a genome and all organellar proteins are nucleus-encoded and expressed in the cytosol. The same is true for the majority of proteins in canonical mitochondria, where the proteins are directed to the organelle by specific targeting sequences (transit peptides) that are recognised by translocases in the mitochondrial membrane. In this review, we compare targeting sequences of different parasitic systems with highly reduced mitochondria and give an overview of how the import machinery has been modified in hydrogenosomes and mitosomes.
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- Lena Burri
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
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Ponpuak M, Klemba M, Park M, Gluzman IY, Lamppa GK, Goldberg DE. A role for falcilysin in transit peptide degradation in thePlasmodium falciparumapicoplast. Mol Microbiol 2006; 63:314-34. [PMID: 17074076 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05443.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Falcilysin (FLN) is a zinc metalloprotease thought to degrade globin peptides in the acidic vacuole of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The enzyme has been found to have acidic or neutral pH optima on different peptides and to have additional distribution outside the food vacuole. These data suggested that FLN has an additional function in the parasite. To further probe the functions of FLN, we created a transgenic parasite clone expressing a chromosomally encoded FLN-GFP fusion. Unexpectedly, FLN was found in the apicoplast, an essential chloroplast-like organelle. Nuclear encoded apicoplast proteins are targeted to the organelle by a bipartite N-terminal sequence comprised of a signal sequence followed by a positively charged transit peptide domain. Free transit peptides are thought to be toxic to the plastid and need to be rapidly degraded after proteolytic release from proproteins. We hypothesized that FLN may participate in transit peptide degradation in the apicoplast based on its preference for basic residues at neutral pH and on phylogenetic comparison with other M16 family metalloproteases. In vitro cleavage by FLN of the transit peptide from the apicoplast-resident acyl carrier protein supports this idea. The importance of FLN for parasite development is suggested by our inability to truncate the chromosomal FLN open reading frame. Our work indicates that FLN is an attractive target for antimalarial development.
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- Marisa Ponpuak
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University, Departments of Molecular Microbiology and Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Burri L, Williams BAP, Bursac D, Lithgow T, Keeling PJ. Microsporidian mitosomes retain elements of the general mitochondrial targeting system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:15916-20. [PMID: 17043242 PMCID: PMC1635103 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604109103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Microsporidia are intracellular parasites that infect a variety of animals, including humans. As highly specialized parasites, they are characterized by a number of unusual adaptations, many of which are manifested as extreme reduction at the molecular, biochemical, and cellular levels. One interesting aspect of reduction is the mitochondrion. Microsporidia were long considered to be amitochondriate, but recently a tiny mitochondrion-derived organelle called the mitosome was detected. The molecular function of this organelle remains poorly understood. The mitosome has no genome, so it must import all its proteins from the cytosol. In other fungi, the mitochondrial protein import machinery consists of a network series of heterooligomeric translocases and peptidases, but in microsporidia, only a few subunits of some of these complexes have been identified to date. Here, we look at targeting sequences of the microsporidian mitosomal import system and show that mitosomes do in some cases still use N-terminal and internal targeting sequences that are recognizable by import systems of mitochondria in yeast. Furthermore, we have examined the function of the inner membrane peptidase processing enzyme and demonstrate that mitosomal substrates of this enzyme are processed to mature proteins in one species with a simplified processing complex, Antonospora locustae. However, in Encephalitozoon cuniculi, the processing complex is lost altogether, and the preprotein substrate functions with the targeting leader still attached. This report provides direct evidence for presequencing processing in mitosomes and also shows how a complex molecular system has continued to degenerate throughout the evolution of microsporidia.
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- Lena Burri
- *Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; and
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- *Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; and
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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- *Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; and
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Nomura H, Athauda SBP, Wada H, Maruyama Y, Takahashi K, Inoue H. Identification and reverse genetic analysis of mitochondrial processing peptidase and the core protein of the cytochrome bc1 complex of Caenorhabditis elegans, a model parasitic nematode. J Biochem 2006; 139:967-79. [PMID: 16788047 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mitochondria could be a good target for anti-parasitic drugs. The alpha and beta subunits of mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) and the core subunits of the cytochrome bc1 complex, UCR-1 and UCR-2, are homologous to one another and are important for mitochondrial functions. However, our knowledge of these proteins in nematodes is very limited. Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living nematode, has six genes coding for proteins homologous to these subunits. On primary structure comparison, and immunochemical and enzymological analyses, the gene products were assigned as follows: Y71G12B.24, alpha-MPP; ZC410.2, beta-MPP; F56D2.1, UCR-1; VW06B3R.1, T10B10.2; and T24C4.1, UCR-2. The primary structures of beta-MPP and UCR-1 from Brugia malayi, a parasitic nematode causing human filariasis, were deduced from their cDNA structures. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the UCR-1s from both C. elegans and B. malayi were less related to mammalian UCR-1s than to MPPs from various organisms. MPP and the bc1 complex are essential for the life cycle of C. elegans, because their reverse genetic inhibition is lethal. This suggests the possibility that these proteins are also essential for the viability of B. malayi and other parasitic nematodes, and are potential targets for anti-parasitic agents.
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- Hiroyuki Nomura
- Laboratory of Molecular Biochemistry, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0392
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Wilcox AJ, Choy J, Bustamante C, Matouschek A. Effect of protein structure on mitochondrial import. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:15435-40. [PMID: 16230614 PMCID: PMC1266127 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507324102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Most proteins that are to be imported into the mitochondrial matrix are synthesized as precursors, each composed of an N-terminal targeting sequence followed by a mature domain. Precursors are recognized through their targeting sequences by receptors at the mitochondrial surface and are then threaded through import channels into the matrix. Both the targeting sequence and the mature domain contribute to the efficiency with which proteins are imported into mitochondria. Precursors must be in an unfolded conformation during translocation. Mitochondria can unfold some proteins by changing their unfolding pathways. The effectiveness of this unfolding mechanism depends on the local structure of the mature domain adjacent to the targeting sequence. This local structure determines the extent to which the unfolding pathway can be changed and, therefore, the unfolding rate increased. Atomic force microscopy studies find that the local structures of proteins near their N and C termini also influence their resistance to mechanical unfolding. Thus, protein unfolding during import resembles mechanical unfolding, and the specificity of import is determined by the resistance of the mature domain to unfolding as well as by the properties of the targeting sequence.
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- Alexander J Wilcox
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Lister R, Hulett JM, Lithgow T, Whelan J. Protein import into mitochondria: origins and functions today (review). Mol Membr Biol 2005; 22:87-100. [PMID: 16092527 DOI: 10.1080/09687860500041247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Mitochondria are organelles derived from alpha-proteobacteria over the course of one to two billion years. Mitochondria from the major eukaryotic lineages display some variation in functions and coding capacity but sequence analysis demonstrates them to be derived from a single common ancestral endosymbiont. The loss of assorted functions, the transfer of genes to the nucleus, and the acquisition of various 'eukaryotic' proteins have resulted in an organelle that contains approximately 1000 different proteins, with most of these proteins imported into the organelle across one or two membranes. A single translocase in the outer membrane and two translocases in the inner membrane mediate protein import. Comparative sequence analysis and functional complementation experiments suggest some components of the import pathways to be directly derived from the eubacterial endosymbiont's own proteins, and some to have arisen 'de novo' at the earliest stages of 'mitochondrification' of the endosymbiont. A third class of components appears lineage-specific, suggesting they were incorporated into the process of protein import long after mitochondria was established as an organelle and after the divergence of the various eukaryotic lineages. Protein sorting pathways inherited from the endosymbiont have been co-opted and play roles in intraorganelle protein sorting after import. The import apparatus of animals and fungi show significant similarity to one another, but vary considerably to the plant apparatus. Increasing complexity in the eukaryotic lineage, i.e., from single celled to multi-cellular life forms, has been accompanied by an expansion in genes encoding each component, resulting in small gene families encoding many components. The functional differences in these gene families remain to be elucidated, but point to a mosaic import apparatus that can be regulated by a variety of signals.
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- Ryan Lister
- Plant Molecular Biology Group, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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Ståhl A, Nilsson S, Lundberg P, Bhushan S, Biverståhl H, Moberg P, Morisset M, Vener A, Mäler L, Langel U, Glaser E. Two novel targeting peptide degrading proteases, PrePs, in mitochondria and chloroplasts, so similar and still different. J Mol Biol 2005; 349:847-60. [PMID: 15893767 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2004] [Revised: 04/01/2005] [Accepted: 04/05/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Two novel metalloproteases from Arabidopsis thaliana, termed AtPrePI and AtPrePII, were recently identified and shown to degrade targeting peptides in mitochondria and chloroplasts using an ambiguous targeting peptide. AtPrePI and AtPrePII are classified as dually targeted proteins as they are targeted to both mitochondria and chloroplasts. Both proteases harbour an inverted metal binding motif and belong to the pitrilysin subfamily A. Here we have investigated the subsite specificity of AtPrePI and AtPrePII by studying their proteolytic activity against the mitochondrial F(1)beta pre-sequence, peptides derived from the F(1)beta pre-sequence as well as non-mitochondrial peptides and proteins. The degradation products were analysed, identified by MALDI-TOF spectrometry and superimposed on the 3D structure of the F(1)beta pre-sequence. AtPrePI and AtPrePII cleaved peptides that are in the range of 10 to 65 amino acid residues, whereas folded or longer unfolded peptides and small proteins were not degraded. Both proteases showed preference for basic amino acids in the P(1) position and small, uncharged amino acids or serine residues in the P'(1) position. Interestingly, both AtPrePI and AtPrePII cleaved almost exclusively towards the ends of the alpha-helical elements of the F(1)beta pre-sequence. However, AtPrePI showed a preference for the N-terminal amphiphilic alpha-helix and positively charged amino acid residues and degraded the F(1)beta pre-sequence into 10-16 amino acid fragments, whereas AtPrePII did not show any positional preference and degraded the F(1)beta pre-sequence into 10-23 amino acid fragments. In conclusion, despite the high sequence identity between AtPrePI and AtPrePII and similarities in cleavage specificities, cleavage site recognition differs for both proteases and is context and structure dependent.
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- Annelie Ståhl
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rudhe C, Clifton R, Chew O, Zemam K, Richter S, Lamppa G, Whelan J, Glaser E. Processing of the dual targeted precursor protein of glutathione reductase in mitochondria and chloroplasts. J Mol Biol 2004; 343:639-47. [PMID: 15465051 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.08.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2004] [Revised: 08/16/2004] [Accepted: 08/18/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pea glutathione reductase (GR) is dually targeted to mitochondria and chloroplasts by means of an N-terminal signal peptide of 60 amino acid residues. After import, the signal peptide is cleaved off by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) in mitochondria and by the stromal processing peptidase (SPP) in chloroplasts. Here, we have investigated determinants for processing of the dual targeting signal peptide of GR by MPP and SPP to examine if there is separate or universal information recognised by both processing peptidases. Removal of 30 N-terminal amino acid residues of the signal peptide (GRDelta1-30) greatly stimulated processing activity by both MPP and SPP, whereas constructs with a deletion of an additional ten amino acid residues (GRDelta1-40) and deletion of 22 amino acid residues in the middle of the GR signal sequence (GRDelta30-52) could be cleaved by SPP but not by MPP. Numerous single mutations of amino acid residues in proximity of the cleavage site did not affect processing by SPP, whereas mutations within two amino acid residues on either side of the processing site had inhibitory effect on processing by MPP with a nearly complete inhibition for mutations at position -1. Mutation of positively charged residues in the C-terminal half of the GR targeting peptide inhibited processing by MPP but not by SPP. An inhibitory effect on SPP was detected only when double and triple mutations were introduced upstream of the cleavage site. These results indicate that: (i) recognition of processing site on a dual targeted GR precursor differs between MPP and SPP; (ii) the GR targeting signal has similar determinants for processing by MPP as signals targeting only to mitochondria; and (iii) processing by SPP shows a low level of sensitivity to single mutations on targeting peptide and likely involves recognition of the physiochemical properties of the sequence in the vicinity of cleavage rather than a requirement for specific amino acid residues.
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- Charlotta Rudhe
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Krause F, Scheckhuber CQ, Werner A, Rexroth S, Reifschneider NH, Dencher NA, Osiewacz HD. Supramolecular Organization of Cytochrome c Oxidase- and Alternative Oxidase-dependent Respiratory Chains in the Filamentous Fungus Podospora anserina. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:26453-61. [PMID: 15044453 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m402756200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To elucidate the molecular basis of the link between respiration and longevity, we have studied the organization of the respiratory chain of a wild-type strain and of two long-lived mutants of the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina. This established aging model is able to respire by either the standard or the alternative pathway. In the latter pathway, electrons are directly transferred from ubiquinol to the alternative oxidase and thus bypass complexes III and IV. We show that the cytochrome c oxidase pathway is organized according to the mammalian "respirasome" model (Schägger, H., and Pfeiffer, K. (2000) EMBO J. 19, 1777-1783). In contrast, the alternative pathway is composed of distinct supercomplexes of complexes I and III (i.e. I(2) and I(2)III(2)), which have not been described so far. Enzymatic analysis reveals distinct functional properties of complexes I and III belonging to either cytochrome c oxidase- or alternative oxidase-dependent pathways. By a gentle colorless-native PAGE, almost all of the ATP synthases from mitochondria respiring by either pathway were preserved in the dimeric state. Our data are of significance for the understanding of both respiratory pathways as well as lifespan control and aging.
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- Frank Krause
- Department of Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry, Darmstadt University of Technology, Petersenstrasse 22, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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Richter S, Lamppa GK. Structural properties of the chloroplast stromal processing peptidase required for its function in transit peptide removal. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:39497-502. [PMID: 12888578 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m305729200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The stromal processing peptidase (SPP) catalyzes removal of transit peptides from a diversity of precursor proteins imported into chloroplasts. SPP contains an HXXEH zinc-binding motif characteristic of members of the metallopeptidase family M16. We previously found that the three steps of precursor processing by SPP (i.e. transit peptide binding, removal, and conversion to a degradable subfragment) are mediated by features that reside in the C-terminal 10-15 residues of the transit peptide. In this study, we performed a mutational analysis of SPP to identify structural elements that determine its function. SPP loses the ability to proteolytically remove the transit peptide when residues of the HXXEH motif, found in an N-terminal region, are mutated. Deletion of 240 amino acids from its C terminus also abolishes activity. Interestingly, however, SPP can still carry out the initial binding step, recognizing the C-terminal residues of the transit peptide. Hence, transit peptide binding and removal are two separable steps of the overall processing reaction. Transit peptide conversion to a subfragment also depends on the HXXEH motif. The precursor of SPP, containing an unusually long transit peptide itself, is not proteolytically active. Thus, the SPP precursor is synthesized as a latent form of the metallopeptidase.
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- Stefan Richter
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Bauer MF, Hofmann S, Neupert W. Import of mitochondrial proteins. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2003; 53:57-90. [PMID: 12512337 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(02)53004-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Matthias F Bauer
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Molecular Diagnostics and Mitochondrial Genetics and Diabetes Research Group, Academic Hospital Munich-Schwabing Kölner Platz, D-80804 München, Germany
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Kitada S, Yamasaki E, Kojima K, Ito A. Determination of the cleavage site of the presequence by mitochondrial processing peptidase on the substrate binding scaffold and the multiple subsites inside a molecular cavity. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:1879-85. [PMID: 12433926 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209263200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) recognizes a large variety of basic presequences of mitochondrial preproteins and cleaves the single site, often including arginine, at the -2 position (P(2)). To elucidate the recognition and specific processing of the preproteins by MPP, we mutated to alanines at acidic residues conserved in a large internal cavity formed by the MPP subunits, alpha-MPP and beta-MPP, and analyzed the processing efficiencies for various preproteins. We report here that alanine mutations at a subsite in rat beta-MPP interacting with the P(2) arginine cause a shift in the processing site to the C-terminal side of the preprotein. Because of reduced interactions with the P(2) arginine, the mutated enzymes recognize not only the N-terminal authentic cleavage site with P(2) arginine but also the potential C-terminal cleavage site without a P(2) arginine. In fact, it competitively cleaves the two sites of the preprotein. Moreover, the acidified site of alpha-MPP, which binds to the distal basic site in the long presequence, recognized the authentic P(2) arginine as the distal site in compensation for ionic interaction at the proximal site in the mutant MPP. Thus, MPP seems to scan the presequence from beta- to alpha-MPP on the substrate binding scaffold inside the MPP cavity and finds the distal and P(2) arginines on the multiple subsites on both MPP subunits. A possible mechanism for substrate recognition and cleavage is discussed here based on the notable character of a subsite-deficient mutant of MPP in which the substrate specificity is altered.
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- Sakae Kitada
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
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- Mark Paetzel
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Three peptidases are responsible for the proteolytic processing of both nuclearly and mitochondrially encoded precursor polypeptides targeted to the various subcompartments of the mitochondria. Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) cleaves the vast majority of mitochondrial proteins, while inner membrane peptidase (IMP) and mitochondrial intermediate peptidase (MIP) process specific subsets of precursor polypeptides. All three enzymes are structurally and functionally conserved across species, and their human homologues begin to be recognized as potential players in mitochondrial disease.
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- Oleksandr Gakh
- Departments of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, 200 First Street SW, Stabile 7-48, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Biogenesis of mitochondria requires import of several hundreds of different nuclear-encoded preproteins needed for mitochondrial structure and function. Import and sorting of these preproteins is a multistep process facilitated by complex proteinaceous machineries located in the mitochondrial outer and inner membranes. The translocase of the mitochondrial outer membrane, the TOM complex, comprises receptors which specifically recognize mitochondrial preproteins and a protein conducting channel formed by TOM40. The TOM complex is able to insert resident proteins into the outer membrane and to translocate proteins into the intermembrane space. For import of inner membrane or matrix proteins, the TOM complex cooperates with translocases of the inner membrane, the TIM complexes. During the past 30 years, intense research on fungi enabled the identification and mechanistic characterization of a number of different proteins involved in protein translocation. This review focuses on the contributions of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa to our current understanding of mitochondrial protein import, with special emphasis on the structure and function of the TOM complex.
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- Holger Prokisch
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5, 81377 Munich, Germany.
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Mukhopadhyay A, Hammen P, Waltner-Law M, Weiner H. Timing and structural consideration for the processing of mitochondrial matrix space proteins by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). Protein Sci 2002; 11:1026-35. [PMID: 11967360 PMCID: PMC2373553 DOI: 10.1110/ps.3760102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2001] [Revised: 01/19/2001] [Accepted: 01/22/2001] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Most mitochondrial matrix space proteins are synthesized as a precursor protein, and the N-terminal extension of amino acids that served as the leader sequence is removed after import by the action of a metalloprotease called mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). The crystal structure of MPP has been solved very recently, and it has been shown that synthetic leader peptides bind with MPP in an extended conformation. However, it is not known how MPP recognizes hundreds of leader peptides with different primary and secondary structures or when during import the leader is removed. Here we took advantage of the fact that the structure of the leader from rat liver aldehyde dehydrogenase has been determined by 2D-NMR to possess two helical portions separated by a three amino acid (RGP) linker. When the linker was deleted, the leader formed one long continuous helix that can target a protein to the matrix space but is not removed by the action of MPP. Repeats of two and three leaders were fused to the precursor protein to determine the stage of import at which processing occurs, if MPP could function as an endo peptidase, and if it would process if the cleavage site was part of a helix. Native or linker deleted constructs were used. Import into isolated yeast mitochondria or processing with recombinantly expressed MPP was performed. It was concluded that processing did not occur as the precursor was just entering the matrix space, but most likely coincided with the folding of the protein. Further, finding that hydrolysis could not take place if the processing site was part of a stable helix is consistent with the crystal structure of MPP. Lastly, it was found that MPP could function at sites as far as 108 residues from the N terminus of the precursor protein, but its ability to process decreases exponentially as the distance increases.
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- Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1153, USA
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Emanuelsson O, von Heijne G, Schneider G. Analysis and prediction of mitochondrial targeting peptides. Methods Cell Biol 2002; 65:175-87. [PMID: 11381593 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(01)65011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- O Emanuelsson
- Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Mitochondrial Processing Peptidase/Mitochondrial Intermediate Peptidase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1874-6047(02)80005-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Kitada S, Kojima K, Ito A. Glu(191) and Asp(195) in rat mitochondrial processing peptidase beta subunit are involved in effective cleavage of precursor protein through interaction with the proximal arginine. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 287:594-9. [PMID: 11563836 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP), consisting of alpha and beta subunits, recognizes a large variety of N-terminal extension peptides of mitochondrial precursor proteins, and generally cleaves a single site of the peptide including arginine at the -2 position (P(2)). We obtained evidence that Glu(191) and Asp(195) of rat beta subunit interact with P(2) arginine of precursor protein through ionic and hydrogen bonds, respectively, using recombinant MPP. Mutation to alanines at Glu(191) and Asp(195) reduced processing activity toward precursors with P(2) arginine, but resulted in no loss of activity toward P(2) alanine precursors. Charge-complementary mutation demonstrated that MPP variants with beta Arg(191) exhibited compensatory processing activity for the precursor with acidic residue at the P(2) position. Thus, Glu(191) and Asp(195) are substrate-binding sites required for cleavage of extension peptides through interaction with P(2) arginine.
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- S Kitada
- Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
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Zhang XP, Sjöling S, Tanudji M, Somogyi L, Andreu D, Eriksson LE, Gräslund A, Whelan J, Glaser E. Mutagenesis and computer modelling approach to study determinants for recognition of signal peptides by the mitochondrial processing peptidase. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 27:427-38. [PMID: 11576427 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2001.01108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Determinants for the recognition of a mitochondrial presequence by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) have been investigated using mutagenesis and bioinformatics approaches. All plant mitochondrial presequences with a cleavage site that was confirmed by experimental studies can be grouped into three classes. Two major classes contain an arginine residue at position -2 or -3, and the third class does not have any conserved arginines. Sequence logos revealed loosely conserved cleavage motifs for the first two classes but no significant amino acid conservation for the third class. Investigation of processing determinants for a class III precursor, Nicotiana plumbaginifolia F1beta precursor of ATP synthase (pF1beta), was performed using a series of pF1beta presequence mutants and mutant presequence peptides derived from the C-terminal portion of the presequence. Replacement of -2 Gln by Arg inhibited processing, whereas replacement of either the most proximally located -5 Arg or -15 Arg by Leu had only a low inhibitory effect. The C-terminal portion of the pF1beta presequence forms a helix-turn-helix structure. Mutations disturbing or prolonging the helical element upstream of the cleavage site inhibited processing significantly. Structural models of potato MPP and the C-terminal pF1beta presequence peptide were built by homology modelling and empirical conformational energy search methods, respectively. Molecular docking of the pF1beta presequence peptide to the MPP model suggested binding of the peptide to the negatively charged binding cleft formed by the alpha-MPP and beta-MPP subunits in close proximity to the H111XXE114H115X(116-190)E191 proteolytic active site on beta-MPP. Our results show for the first time that the amino acid at the -2 position, even if not an arginine, as well as structural properties of the C-terminal portion of the presequence are important determinants for the processing of a class III precursor by MPP.
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- X P Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Deng K, Shenoy SK, Tso SC, Yu L, Yu CA. Reconstitution of mitochondrial processing peptidase from the core proteins (subunits I and II) of bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome bc(1) complex. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:6499-505. [PMID: 11073949 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m007128200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mature core I and core II proteins of the bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome bc(1) complex were individually overexpressed in Escherichia coli as soluble proteins using the expression vector pET-I and pET-II, respectively. Purified recombinant core I and core II alone show no mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) activity. When these two proteins are mixed together, MPP activity is observed. Maximum activity is obtained when the molar ratio of these two core proteins reaches 1. This indicates that only the two core subunits of thebc(1) complex are needed for MPP activity. The properties of reconstituted MPP are similar to those of Triton X-100-activated MPP in the bovine bc(1) complex. When Rieske iron-sulfur protein precursor is used as substrate for reconstituted MPP, the processing activity stops when the amount of product formation (subunit IX) equals the amount of reconstituted MPP used in the system. Addition of Triton X-100 to the product-inhibited reaction mixture restores MPP activity, indicating that Triton X-100 dissociates bound subunit IX from the active site of reconstituted MPP. The aromatic group, rather than the hydroxyl group, at Tyr(57) of core I is essential for reconstitutive activity.
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- K Deng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
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Huang S, Murphy S, Matouschek A. Effect of the protein import machinery at the mitochondrial surface on precursor stability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:12991-6. [PMID: 11069283 PMCID: PMC27166 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.230243097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Many biological processes require proteins to undergo conformational changes at the surface of membranes. For example, some precursor proteins unfold at the surface of mitochondria and chloroplasts before translocation into the organelles, and toxins such as colicin A unfold to the molten globule state at bacterial surfaces before inserting into the cell membrane. It is commonly thought that the membrane surfaces and the associated protein machinery destabilize the substrate proteins and that this effect is required for membrane insertion or translocation. One of the best characterized translocation processes is protein import into mitochondria. By measuring the contributions of individual interactions within a model protein to its stability at the mitochondrial surface and in free solution, we show here that the mitochondrial surface neither induces the molten globule state in this protein nor preferentially destabilizes any type of interaction (e.g., hydrogen bonds, nonpolar, etc.) within the protein. Because it is not possible to measure absolute protein stability at the surface of mitochondria, we determined the stability of a tightly associated protein-protein complex at the mitochondrial import site as a model of the stability of a protein. We found the binding constants of the protein-protein complex at the mitochondrial surface and in free solution to be identical. Our results demonstrate that the mitochondrial surface does not destabilize importing precursor proteins in its vicinity.
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- S Huang
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, 2153 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3500, USA
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Nagao Y, Kitada S, Kojima K, Toh H, Kuhara S, Ogishima T, Ito A. Glycine-rich region of mitochondrial processing peptidase alpha-subunit is essential for binding and cleavage of the precursor proteins. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:34552-6. [PMID: 10942759 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003110200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase, a metalloendopeptidase consisting of alpha- and beta-subunits, specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and cleaves off amino-terminal extension peptides. The alpha-subunit has a characteristic glycine-rich segment in the middle portion. To elucidate the role of the region in processing functions of the enzyme, deletion or site-directed mutations were introduced, and effects on kinetic parameters and substrate binding of the enzyme were analyzed. Deletion of three residues of the region, Phe(289) to Ala(291), led to a dramatic reduction in processing activity to practically zero. Mutation of Phe(289), Lys(296), and Met(298) to alanine resulted in a decrease in the activity, but these mutations had no apparent effect on interactions between the two subunits, indicating that reduction in processing activity is not due to structural disruption at the interface interacting with the beta-subunit. Although the mutant enzymes, Phe289Ala, Lys296Ala, and Met298Ala, had an approximate 10-fold less affinity for substrate peptides than did that of the wild type, the deletion mutant, delta 289-291, showed an extremely low affinity. Thus, shortening of the glycine-rich stretch led to a dramatic reduction of interaction between the enzyme and substrate peptides and cleavage reaction, whereas mutation of each amino acid in this region seemed to affect primarily the cleavage reaction.
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- Y Nagao
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Bolhuis A, Koetje E, Dubois JY, Vehmaanperä J, Venema G, Bron S, van Dijl JM. Did the mitochondrial processing peptidase evolve from a eubacterial regulator of gene expression? Mol Biol Evol 2000; 17:198-201. [PMID: 10666719 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ito A. Mitochondrial processing peptidase: multiple-site recognition of precursor proteins. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 265:611-6. [PMID: 10600469 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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During or shortly after import of the precursor proteins into mitochondria, the amino-terminal extension peptides are first proteolytically removed by mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). The peptidase is a metalloendopeptidase, classified as a member of pitrilysin family, and forms a heterodimer consisting of structurally related alpha- and beta-subunits which are homologous to core proteins, core 2 and core 1, respectively, of mitochondrial ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase complex. The enzyme specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and is cleaved at a single and specific site. In this review, I will focus on recognition mechanisms of precursor proteins by MPP. Structural characteristics of the precursor responsible for the recognition by MPP, role of each subunit, and amino acid residues of MPP involved in the recognition are discussed.
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- A Ito
- Department of Molecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
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Schwartz MP, Matouschek A. The dimensions of the protein import channels in the outer and inner mitochondrial membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:13086-90. [PMID: 10557277 PMCID: PMC23904 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.23.13086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Most mitochondrial proteins are imported into mitochondria through transmembrane channels composed largely, and perhaps exclusively, of proteins. We have determined the effective internal diameter of the protein import channel in the mitochondrial outer membrane to be between 20 A and 26 A during translocation. The diameter of the import channel in the inner membrane is smaller than the diameter of the outer membrane import channel. These results were obtained by measuring the effect of rigid steric bulk introduced into precursor proteins on import.
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- M P Schwartz
- Department of Biochemistry, Northwestern University, 2153 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3500, USA
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Schwartz MP, Huang S, Matouschek A. The structure of precursor proteins during import into mitochondria. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:12759-64. [PMID: 10212260 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.18.12759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Precursor proteins must be at least partially unfolded during import into mitochondria, but their actual conformation during translocation is not known. Are proteins fully unfolded and threaded through the import machinery amino acid by amino acid, or do they retain some partial structure? The folding pathway of most proteins in vitro contains a partially folded intermediate known as the molten globule state, and it has been suggested that proteins are in the molten globule state during translocation across membranes. Here we show that precursors are normally fully unfolded during import into mitochondria. However, precursors containing residual structure can be imported, if less efficiently.
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- M P Schwartz
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3500, USA
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Ni L, Heard TS, Weiner H. In vivo mitochondrial import. A comparison of leader sequence charge and structural relationships with the in vitro model resulting in evidence for co-translational import. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:12685-91. [PMID: 10212250 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.18.12685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The positive charges and structural properties of the mitochondrial leader sequence of aldehyde dehydrogenase have been extensively studied in vitro. The results of these studies showed that increasing the helicity of this leader would compensate for reduced import from positive charge substitutions of arginine with glutamine or the insertion of negative charged residues made in the native leader. In this in vivo study, utilizing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a passenger protein, import results showed the opposite effect with respect to helicity, but the results from mutations made within the native leader sequence were consistent between the in vitro and in vivo experiments. Leader mutations that reduced the efficiency of import resulted in a cytosolic accumulation of a truncated GFP chimera that was fluorescent but devoid of a mitochondrial leader. The native leader efficiently imported before GFP could achieve a stable, import-incompetent structure, suggesting that import was coupled with translation. As a test for a co-translational mechanism, a chimera of GFP that contained the native leader of aldehyde dehydrogenase attached at the N terminus and a C-terminal endoplasmic reticulum targeting signal attached to the C terminus of GFP was constructed. This chimera was localized exclusively to mitochondria. The import result with the dual signal chimera provides support for a co-translational mitochondrial import pathway.
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- L Ni
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1153, USA
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Kojima K, Kitada S, Shimokata K, Ogishima T, Ito A. Cooperative formation of a substrate binding pocket by alpha- and beta-subunits of mitochondrial processing peptidase. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32542-6. [PMID: 9829989 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.49.32542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and cleaves off N-terminal extension peptides. The enzyme is a metalloprotease and forms a heterodimer consisting of structurally related alpha- and beta-subunits. To investigate the responsibility of MPP subunits for substrate recognition, we monitored interaction of the fluorescent-labeled peptide substrates with the MPP and its subunits. The specific binding of the peptide to the MPP was confirmed by findings of the direct participation of arginine residues in the binding, which are located at position -2 and the position distal to the cleavage site and are essential for the cleavage reaction. MPP bound the substrate peptides with high affinity only in the dimeric complex, and each subunit monomer had about a 30-fold less affinity than the complex. The individual subunit required arginines at different positions in the peptide for binding, although their affinities were much lower than that of MPP. Fluorescence quenching analysis showed that the peptide bound to MPP was buried in the enzyme. Thus, both subunits of MPP might be required for formation of a substrate binding pocket with multiple subsites lying across them.
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- K Kojima
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Kitada S, Kojima K, Shimokata K, Ogishima T, Ito A. Glutamate residues required for substrate binding and cleavage activity in mitochondrial processing peptidase. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32547-53. [PMID: 9829990 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.49.32547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase, a metalloendopeptidase consisting of alpha- and beta-subunits, specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and cleaves off N-terminal extension peptides. The enzyme requires the basic amino acid residues in the extension peptides for effective and specific cleavage. To elucidate the mechanism involved in the molecular recognition of substrate by the enzyme, several glutamates around the active site of the rat beta-subunit, which has a putative metal-binding motif, H56XXEH60, were mutated to alanines or aspartates, and effects on kinetic parameters, metal binding, and substrate binding of the enzyme were analyzed. None of mutant proteins analyzed was impaired in dimer formation with the alpha-subunit. Mutation of glutamates at positions 79, 129, and 136, in addition to an active-site glutamate at position 59, resulted in a marked decrease in cleavage efficiency. Together with sequence alignment data, glutamate 136 appears to be involved in metal binding. Glutamate 129 is mostly responsible for the catalysis, as there was a considerable decrease in kcat value by the mutation. Mutation of glutamate 79 led to decrease in kcat value and increase in Km values. Substrate binding experiments using an environmentally sensitive fluorescence probe attached to the peptide showed that the mutation caused a remarkable environmental change at the binding site to the N-terminal region of the substrate peptide and decreased binding of the peptide, thereby suggesting that glutamate 79 participates primarily in substrate binding. Thus, some glutamate residues required for substrate binding and cleavage activity have been identified.
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- S Kitada
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Shimokata K, Kitada S, Ogishima T, Ito A. Role of alpha-subunit of mitochondrial processing peptidase in substrate recognition. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:25158-63. [PMID: 9737975 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.39.25158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial processing peptidase is a heterodimer consisting of alpha-mitochondrial processing peptidase (alpha-MPP) and beta-MPP. We investigated the role of alpha-MPP in substrate recognition using a recombinant yeast MPP. Disruption of amino acid residues between 10 and 129 of the alpha-MPP did not essentially impair binding activity with beta-MPP and processing activity, whereas truncation of the C-terminal 41 amino acids led to a significant loss of binding and processing activity. Several acidic amino acids in the region conserved among the enzymes from various species were mutated to asparagine or glutamine, and effects on processing of the precursors were analyzed. Glu353 is required for processing of malate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, and adrenodoxin precursors. Glu377 and Asp378 are needed only for the processing of aspartate aminotransferase and adrenodoxin precursors, both of which have a longer extension peptide than the others studied. However, processing of the yeast alpha-MPP precursor, which has a short extension peptide of nine amino acids, was not affected by these mutations. Thus, effects of substitution of acidic amino acids on the processing differed with the precursor protein and depended on length of the extension peptides. alpha-MPP may function as a substrate-recognizing subunit by interacting mainly with basic amino acids at a region distal to the cleavage site in precursors with a longer extension peptide.
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- K Shimokata
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Luciano P, Tokatlidis K, Chambre I, Germanique JC, Géli V. The mitochondrial processing peptidase behaves as a zinc-metallopeptidase. J Mol Biol 1998; 280:193-9. [PMID: 9654444 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The yeast mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) and its subunits were purified in Escherichia coli under conditions for which the enzyme retains most of its processing activity in the absence of externally added divalent cation. The holoenzyme exhibited a Km value of 1.35 microM and a Vmax value of 0.25 microM/min and was inhibited by metal chelators in a time-dependent manner. Measurement of the metal content showed that both, MPP and beta-MPP, contained 0.86 and 1.05 atoms of Zn2+ per molecule, respectively. An enzymatically inactive MPP mutant carrying a mutation of the first histidine of the putative metal-ion binding HXXEH motif in beta-MPP retained less than 0.2 atom of Zn2+ per molecule. A metal-free enzyme (apoenzyme) was prepared from the holoenzyme and shown to be devoid of any processing activity. Incubation of the apoenzyme with 50 nM and 500 nM Zn2+ restored 50% and 80% of the processing activity, respectively. However, no reactivation occurred at concentrations of Zn2+ higher than 1 microM. Addition of 500 nM Mn2+ or higher concentrations (up to 50 microM) reactivated only 50% of the processing activity. The holoenzyme was competitively inhibited by molar excess of Zn2+ (Ki of 3.1 microM) but not by molar excess of Mn2+. Taken together, our data suggest that the authentic MPP is a Zn2+ rather than a Mn2+ metallopeptidase.
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- P Luciano
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, CNRS, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
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Iwata S, Lee JW, Okada K, Lee JK, Iwata M, Rasmussen B, Link TA, Ramaswamy S, Jap BK. Complete structure of the 11-subunit bovine mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. Science 1998; 281:64-71. [PMID: 9651245 DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5373.64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 953] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex performs two functions: It is a respiratory multienzyme complex and it recognizes a mitochondrial targeting presequence. Refined crystal structures of the 11-subunit bc1 complex from bovine heart reveal full views of this bifunctional enzyme. The "Rieske" iron-sulfur protein subunit shows significant conformational changes in different crystal forms, suggesting a new electron transport mechanism of the enzyme. The mitochondrial targeting presequence of the "Rieske" protein (subunit 9) is lodged between the two "core" subunits at the matrix side of the complex. These "core" subunits are related to the matrix processing peptidase, and the structure unveils how mitochondrial targeting presequences are recognized.
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- S Iwata
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Nett JH, Schägger H, Trumpower BL. Processing of the presequence of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rieske iron-sulfur protein occurs in a single step and can be converted to two-step processing by mutation of a single proline to serine in the presequence. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:8652-8. [PMID: 9535840 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.15.8652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The iron-sulfur proteins of the cytochrome bc1 complexes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces cerevisiae contain the three amino acid motif RX( downward arrow)(F/L/I)XX(T/S/G)XXXX (downward arrow) that is typical for proteins that are cleaved sequentially in two steps by matrix processing peptidase (MPP) and mitochondrial intermediate peptidase (MIP). Despite the presence of this recognition sequence the S. pombe iron-sulfur protein is processed only once during import into mitochondria, whereas the S. cerevisiae protein is processed in two steps. Import of S. pombe iron-sulfur protein in which the putative MIP or MPP recognition sites are eliminated by site-directed mutagenesis and import of iron-sulfur protein into mitochondria from yeast mutants that lack MIP activity indicate that one step processing of the S. pombe iron-sulfur protein is independent of those sites and of MIP activity. Sequencing of the mature protein obtained after import in vitro and of the endogenous iron-sulfur protein isolated from mitochondrial membranes by preparative 2D-electrophoresis shows that MPP recognizes a second site in the presequence and processing occurs between residues 43 and 44. If proline-20 of the S. pombe presequence is changed into a serine, a second cleavage step is induced. Conversely, if serine-24 of the S. cerevisiae presequence is changed to a proline, the first cleavage step that is normally catalyzed by MPP is blocked, causing precursor iron-sulfur protein to accumulate. Together these results indicate that a single amino acid change in the presequence is responsible for one-step processing in S. pombe versus two-step processing in S. cerevisiae.
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- J H Nett
- Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Rapaport D, Mayer A, Neupert W, Lill R. cis and trans sites of the TOM complex of mitochondria in unfolding and initial translocation of preproteins. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:8806-13. [PMID: 9535859 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.15.8806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Translocation of preproteins across the mitochondrial outer membrane is mediated by the TOM complex. Our previous studies led to the concept of two preprotein binding sites acting in series, the surface-exposed cis site and the trans site exposed to the intermembrane space. We report here that preproteins are bound to the cis site in a labile fashion even at low ionic strength, whereas intermediates arrested at the trans site remained firmly bound at higher salt concentration. The stability of the trans site intermediate results from interactions of both the presequence and unfolded parts of the mature part of the preprotein with the TOM complex. Binding to the trans site proceeded at rates comparable with those of unfolding of the mature domain and appeared to be kinetically limited by the unfolding reaction. Efficient binding to the trans site and unfolding were observed with both outer membrane vesicles and intact mitochondria whose membrane potential, DeltaPsi, was dissipated. Upon re-establishing DeltaPsi, trans site-bound preprotein resumed translocation into the matrix. The rates of unfolding and binding to the trans site were the same as those for translocation into intact energized mitochondria. We conclude that preprotein unfolding in intact mitochondria can take place without the involvement of the translocation machinery of the inner membrane and, in particular, the matrix Hsp70 chaperone. Further, preprotein unfolding at the outer membrane can be a rate-limiting step for formation of the trans site intermediate and for the entire translocation reaction.
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- D Rapaport
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Physikalische Biochemie und Zellbiologie der Universität München, Goethestrabetae 33, 80336 München, Federal Republic of Germany
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Lain B, Yañez A, Iriarte A, Martinez-Carrion M. Aminotransferase variants as probes for the role of the N-terminal region of a mature protein in mitochondrial precursor import and processing. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:4406-15. [PMID: 9468492 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.8.4406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Of the two homologous isozymes of aspartate aminotransferase that are also nearly identical in their folded structures, only the mitochondrial form (mAAT) is synthesized as a precursor (pmAAT). After its in vitro synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysate, it can also be efficiently imported into isolated rat liver mitochondria, where it is processed to its native form by removal of the N-terminal presequence. The homologous cytosolic isoenzyme (cAAT) is not imported into mitochondria, even after fusion of the mitochondrial presequence from pmAAT to its N-terminal end. Substitution of the 30-residue N-terminal peptide of the mature portion of pmAAT with the corresponding sequence from the homologous, import-incompetent cytosolic isozyme (pcmAAT) does not prevent import but reduces substantially its processing in the matrix. A detectable amount of the pcmAAT chimera is found associated with the inner mitochondrial membrane. Single and double substitution mutants of Trp-5 and Trp-6 at the N-terminal end of the mature protein are imported into mitochondria with efficiency similar to that of wild type. However, replacement of Trp-5 with proline, or of both tryptophans with either alanine (W5A/W6A mutant) or valine and alanine (W5V/W6A mutant), allows import but interferes with the correct processing of the imported protein despite the presence of an intact cleavage site for the processing peptidase. Similar cleavage results were obtained using newly synthesized proteins and mitochondrial matrix extracts. These results indicate that translocation and processing for a precursor are independent events and that sequences C-terminal to the cleavage site are indeed important for the correct maturation of pmAAT in the matrix, probably because of their contribution to the conformation and flexibility of the peptide region surrounding the cleavage site required for efficient processing. The same region from the mature component of the protein may play a role in the commitment of the passenger protein to complete its translocation into the matrix.
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- B Lain
- Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2499, USA
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Zhang M, Xie W, Leung GS, Deane EE, Kwan HS. Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding beta subunit of mitochondrial processing peptidase from the basidiomycete Lentinula edodes. Gene 1998; 206:23-7. [PMID: 9461410 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00576-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We have isolated the gene encoding the beta subunit of mitochondrial processing peptidase (beta-MPP) from the shiitake mushroom Lentinula edodes. It is a nuclear gene with two small introns. Comparison with known beta-MPP genes revealed that the L. edodes gene is most closely related with that from Neurospora crassa, with 60.8% identities and 87% similarity in the amino-acid sequences. The deduced L. edodes beta-MPP peptide sequence contains the inverse zinc-binding motif (H-X-E-H) that has been found in a large family of zinc-binding metalloproteinases including bacterial proteinases, insulin degrading enzymes and beta-MPPs. The two histidines are thought to contribute two of the three residues for zinc binding. The expression of L. edodes beta-MPP is higher during the development of the fruiting bodies, suggesting that higher mitochondrial activities may be required to meet the energy demand in the rapid growth of the fruiting bodies.
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- M Zhang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Biology, Shatin, N.T
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Schneider G, Sjöling S, Wallin E, Wrede P, Glaser E, von Heijne G. Feature-extraction from endopeptidase cleavage sites in mitochondrial targeting peptides. Proteins 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(19980101)30:1<49::aid-prot5>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Sirrenberg C, Endres M, Becker K, Bauer MF, Walther E, Neupert W, Brunner M. Functional cooperation and stoichiometry of protein translocases of the outer and inner membranes of mitochondria. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:29963-6. [PMID: 9368075 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.47.29963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The qualitative relationship between preprotein translocases in the mitochondrial outer and inner membranes was determined by both a functional analysis and a determination of characteristic components of the translocases. Translocation contact sites of isolated mitochondria were saturated with intermediates of a matrix-targeted precursor of the beta-subunit of the F1-ATPase (pF1beta), and import of preproteins into the different mitochondrial subcompartments was monitored. A strong inhibition (75-95%) was observed for preproteins with an N-terminal matrix targeting signal, indicating that a significant portion of the contact sites was blocked by accumulated F1beta. Insertion of preproteins into the outer membrane and import into the intermembrane space of preproteins without matrix targeting signals was inhibited by about 45%, indicating that functional outer membrane translocases were available despite saturation of contact sites. Similarly, import of members of the mitochondrial carrier family into the inner membrane was only partly inhibited (40-50%), demonstrating that functional Tim22 translocases were available to cooperate with the Tom machinery in the import of carrier proteins. The stoichiometry of Tom40, Tim23, and Tim22 in mitochondria was determined to be 5:1:0.22. We conclude that translocases of the outer membrane are present in excess over translocases of the inner membrane.
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- C Sirrenberg
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie der Universität München, Goethestrasse 33, 80336 München, Germany
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Herrmann JM, Neupert W, Stuart RA. Insertion into the mitochondrial inner membrane of a polytopic protein, the nuclear-encoded Oxa1p. EMBO J 1997; 16:2217-26. [PMID: 9171337 PMCID: PMC1169824 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.9.2217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Oxa1p, a nuclear-encoded protein of the mitochondrial inner membrane with five predicted transmembrane (TM) segments is synthesized as a precursor (pOxa1p) with an N-terminal presequence. It becomes imported in a process requiring the membrane potential, matrix ATP, mt-Hsp70 and the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). After processing, the negatively charged N-terminus of Oxa1p (approximately 90 amino acid residues) is translocated back across the inner membrane into the intermembrane space and thereby attains its native N(out)-C(in) orientation. This export event is dependent on the membrane potential. Chimeric preproteins containing N-terminal stretches of increasing lengths of Oxa1p fused on mouse dehydrofolate reductase (DHFR) were imported into isolated mitochondria. In each case, their DHFR moieties crossed the inner membrane into the matrix. Thus Oxa1p apparently does not contain a stop transfer signal. Instead the TM segments are inserted into the membrane from the matrix side in a pairwise fashion. The sorting pathway of pOxa1p is suggested to combine the pathways of general import into the matrix with a bacterial-type export process. We postulate that at least two different sorting pathways exist in mitochondria for polytopic inner membrane proteins, the evolutionarily novel pathway for members of the ADP/ATP carrier family and a conserved Oxa1p-type pathway.
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Affiliation(s)
- J M Herrmann
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie der Universität München, Germany
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