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  • Title: The essential yeast protein MIM44 (encoded by MPI1) is involved in an early step of preprotein translocation across the mitochondrial inner membrane.
    Author: Blom J, Kübrich M, Rassow J, Voos W, Dekker PJ, Maarse AC, Meijer M, Pfanner N.
    Journal: Mol Cell Biol; 1993 Dec; 13(12):7364-71. PubMed ID: 8246957.
    Abstract:
    The essential yeast gene MPI1 encodes a mitochondrial membrane protein that is possibly involved in protein import into the organelle (A. C. Maarse, J. Blom, L. A. Grivell, and M. Meijer, EMBO J. 11:3619-3628, 1992). For this report, we determined the submitochondrial location of the MPI1 gene product and investigated whether it plays a direct role in the translocation of preproteins. By fractionation of mitochondria, the mature protein of 44 kDa was localized to the mitochondrial inner membrane and therefore termed MIM44. Import of the precursor of MIM44 required a membrane potential across the inner membrane and involved proteolytic processing of the precursor. A preprotein in transit across the mitochondrial membranes was cross-linked to MIM44, whereas preproteins arrested on the mitochondrial surface or fully imported proteins were not cross-linked. When preproteins were arrested at two distinct stages of translocation across the inner membrane, only preproteins at an early stage of translocation could be cross-linked to MIM44. Moreover, solubilized MIM44 was found to interact with in vitro-synthesized preproteins. We conclude that MIM44 is a component of the mitochondrial inner membrane import machinery and interacts with preproteins in an early step of translocation.
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