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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 36, Issue 18, Pages 5787-5799Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn576
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- ANR [JCJC06-0163]
- EUMITOCOMBAT [LSHM-CT-2004-503116]
- Wellcome Trust [074454/Z/04/Z]
- [MEST-CT-FP6-503684]
- BBSRC [BB/F011520/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F011520/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The molecular mechanism of human mitochondrial translation has yet to be fully described. We are particularly interested in understanding the process of translational termination and ribosome recycling in the mitochondrion. Several candidates have been implicated, for which subcellular localization and characterization have not been reported. Here, we show that the putative mitochondrial recycling factor, mtRRF, is indeed a mitochondrial protein. Expression of human mtRRF in fission yeast devoid of endogenous mitochondrial recycling factor suppresses the respiratory phenotype. Further, human mtRRF is able to associate with Escherichia coli ribosomes in vitro and can associate with mitoribosomes in vivo. Depletion of mtRRF in human cell lines is lethal, initially causing profound mitochondrial dysmorphism, aggregation of mitoribosomes, elevated mitochondrial superoxide production and eventual loss of OXPHOS complexes. Finally, mtRRF was shown to co-immunoprecipitate a large number of mitoribosomal proteins attached to other mitochondrial proteins, including putative members of the mitochondrial nucleoid.
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