A novel intermediate on the import pathway of cytochrome b2 into mitochondria: evidence for conservative sorting - PubMed (original) (raw)
A novel intermediate on the import pathway of cytochrome b2 into mitochondria: evidence for conservative sorting
A Gruhler et al. EMBO J. 1995.
Abstract
Cytochrome b2 is sorted into the intermembrane space of mitochondria by a bipartite N-terminal targeting and sorting presequence. In an attempt to define the sorting pathway we have identified an as yet unknown import intermediate. Cytochrome b2-dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) fusion proteins were arrested in the presence of methotrexate (MTX) so that the DHFR domain was at the surface of the outer membrane while the N-terminus reached into the intermembrane space where the sorting signal was removed. This membrane-spanning, mature-sized species was efficiently chased into the mitochondria upon removal of MTX. Thus, an intermediate was generated which was exposed to the intermembrane space but was still associated with the inner membrane. This intermediate was also found upon direct import of cytochrome b2 and derived fusion proteins. These membrane-bound mature-sized cytochrome b2 species loop through the matrix and could be recovered in a complex with mt-Hsp70 and the inner membrane MIM44/ISP45, a component of the inner membrane import apparatus. This novel sorting intermediate can only be explained by a pathway in which cytochrome b2 passes through the matrix. The existence of such an intermediate is inconsistent with a pathway by which entrance of the mature part of cytochrome b2 into the matrix is stopped by the sorting sequence; however, its presence is fully consistent with the conservative sorting pathway.
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