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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 153, Issue 5, Pages 1085-1095Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.153.5.1085
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mitochondria; protein translocation; Mba1; Oxal; membrane insertion
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The biogenesis of mitochondria requires the integration of many proteins into the inner membrane from the matrix side, The inner membrane protein Oral plays an important role in this process. We identified Mba1 as a second mitochondrial component that is required for efficient protein insertion. Like Oral, Mba1 specifically interacts both with mitochondrial translation products and with conservatively sorted, nuclear-encoded proteins during their integration into the inner membrane. Oral and Mba1 overlap in function and substrate specificity, but both can act independently of each other. We conclude that Mba1 is part of the mitochondrial protein export machinery and represents the first component of a novel Oxa1-independent insertion pathway into the mitochondrial inner membrane.
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