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  • Title: Reprogrammed expression of subunit 9 of the mitochondrial ATPase complex of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Expression in vitro from a chemically synthesized gene and import into isolated mitochondria.
    Author: Farrell LB, Gearing DP, Nagley P.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1988 Apr 05; 173(1):131-7. PubMed ID: 2895707.
    Abstract:
    A synthetic gene has been designed and constructed by total chemical synthesis as a first step in the functional relocation from the mitochondrion to the nucleus of a gene encoding subunit 9 of the yeast mitochondrial ATPase complex. This gene (NAP9) incorporates codons frequently used in nuclear genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and additionally includes a series of unique restriction enzyme cleavage sites to facilitate future systematic manipulations of the gene and its protein product. Following the expression of the NAP9 gene by transcription and translation in vitro, a radiolabelled protein was produced which displayed a gel electrophoretic mobility and solubility in chloroform/methanol characteristic of the authentic subunit 9 proteolipid encoded in vivo by the mitochondrial oli1 gene. In order to achieve import into mitochondria of yeast subunit 9, a fusion was made between the NAP9 gene and DNA encoding the cleavable presequence of the nuclearly encoded precursor to subunit 9 from Neurospora crassa. Following expression in vitro, the resultant fusion protein was imported and appropriately processed by isolated yeast mitochondria. The import of yeast subunit 9 was less efficient than that observed in parallel import experiments with yeast subunit 8 attached to the same presequence or with the naturally occurring intact N. crassa subunit 9 precursor. Yeast subunit 9 lacking a leader sequence is not imported into mitochondria but, unlike subunit 8, it does not embed itself into the outer membrane, in spite of its highly hydrophobic character.
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