Acidic Receptor Domains on Both Sides of the Outer Membrane Mediate Translocation of Precursor Proteins into Yeast Mitochondria

Overview

Journal EMBO J

Specialties Biotechnology
Molecular Biology

Date 1995 Dec 15

PMID 8557051

Citations 50

Authors

L Bolliger

T Junne

G Schatz

T Lithgow

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Abstract

Mitochondrial precursor proteins made in the cytosol bind to a hetero-oligomeric protein import receptor on the mitochondrial surface and then pass through the translocation channel across the outer membrane. This translocation step is accelerated by an acidic domain of the receptor subunit Mas22p, which protrudes into the intermembrane space. This 'trans' domain of Mas22p specifically binds functional mitochondrial targeting peptides with a Kd of < 1 microM and is required to anchor the N-terminal targeting sequence of a translocation-arrested precursor in the intermembrane space. If this Mas22p domain is deleted, respiration-driven growth of the cells is compromised and import of different precursors into isolated mitochondria is inhibited 3- to 8-fold. Binding of precursors to the mitochondrial surface appears to be mediated by cytosolically exposed acidic domains of the receptor subunits Mas20p and Mas22p. Translocation of a precursor across the outer membrane thus appears to involve sequential binding of the precursor's basic and amphiphilic targeting signal to acidic receptor domains on both sides of the membrane.

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