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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcad122
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Arabidopsis thaliana; Eukaryotic evolution; Membrane contact sites; Nucleoids; Oxidative phosphorylation; Protein quality control
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ATPase family AAA domain-containing 3 (ATAD3) proteins are unique mitochondrial proteins that are essential in metazoans and Arabidopsis thaliana. They play a critical role in mitochondrial protein quality control and their disruption leads to reduced growth and aberrant mitochondrial function in plants.
ATPase family AAA domain-containing 3 (ATAD3) proteins are unique mitochondrial proteins that arose deep in the eukaryotic lineage but that are surprisingly absent in Fungi and Amoebozoa. These similar to 600-amino acid proteins are anchored in the inner mitochondrial membrane and are essential in metazoans and Arabidopsis thaliana. ATAD3s comprise a C-terminal ATPases Associated with a variety of cellular Activities (AAA+) matrix domain and an ATAD3_N domain, which is located primarily in the inner membrane space but potentially extends to the cytosol to interact with the ER. Sequence and structural alignments indicate that ATAD3 proteins are most similar to classic chaperone unfoldases in the AAA+ family, suggesting that they operate in mitochondrial protein quality control. A. thaliana has four ATAD3 genes in two distinct clades that appear first in the seed plants, and both clades are essential for viability. The four genes are generally coordinately expressed, and transcripts are highest in growing apices and imbibed seeds. Plants with disrupted ATAD3 have reduced growth, aberrant mitochondrial morphology, diffuse nucleoids and reduced oxidative phosphorylation complex I. These and other pleiotropic phenotypes are also observed in ATAD3 mutants in metazoans. Here, we discuss the distribution of ATAD3 proteins as they have evolved in the plant kingdom, their unique structure, what we know about their function in plants and the challenges in determining their essential roles in mitochondria.
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