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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 282, Issue 29, Pages 21015-21023Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M704091200
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ABC transporters make a large and diverse family of proteins found in all phylae. AtCCMA is the nucleotide binding domain of a novel Arabidopsis mitochondrial ABC transporter. It is encoded in the nucleus and imported into mitochondria. Suborganellar and topology studies find AtCCMA bound to the mitochondrial inner membrane, facing the matrix. AtCCMA exhibits an ATPase activity, and ATP/Mg2+ can facilitate its dissociation from membranes. Blue Native PAGE shows that it is part of a 480-kDa complex. Yeast two-hybrid assays reveal interactions between AtCCMA and domains of CcmB, the mitochondria-encoded transmembrane protein of a conserved ABC transporter. All these properties designate the protein as the ortholog in plant mitochondria of the bacterial CcmA required for cytochrome c maturation. The transporter that involves AtCCMA defines a new category of eukaryotic ABC proteins because its transmembrane and nucleotide binding domains are encoded by separate genomes.
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