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  • Title: A family of mitochondrial proteins involved in bioenergetICS and biogenesis.
    Author: Schulte U, Arretz M, Schneider H, Tropschug M, Wachter E, Neupert W, Weiss H.
    Journal: Nature; 1989 May 11; 339(6220):147-9. PubMed ID: 2524007.
    Abstract:
    The respiratory chain complexes of mitochondria consist of many different subunits, of which only a few partake directly in electron transport. The functions of the subunits that do not contain prosthetic groups are largely unknown. The cytochrome reductase complex of Neurospora crassa, for examine, consists of nine different subunits, of which the peripheral membrane proteins I and II (ref.3) that are located on the matrix side of the mitochondrial inner membrane are the largest subunits devoid of redox centres. Significantly, a cytochrome reductase fraction lacking these two subunits was inactive in electron transfer, and in yeast mutants with defective genes for either of the two subunits, assembly of the reductase is disrupted. Most mitochondrial proteins are imported into the mitochondrion as precursor proteins, and two proteins are necessary for cleaving their presequences, namely the matrix processing peptidase (MPP) and the processing enhancing protein (PEP), the latter strongly stimulating the activity of the former. Temperature-sensitive yeast mutants, which are affected in PEP or MPP, accumulate precursors at the nonpermissive temperature. We report here that subunit I of the cytochrome reductase can be grouped as members of the same protein family.
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