Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH
Volume 1803, Issue 6, Pages 732-739Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.01.013
Keywords
Mitochondria; Presequence translocase; TIM23 complex; Import motor; Respiratory chain
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sonderforschungsbereich [746]
- Niedersachsische VW-Vorab
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Mitochondria are organelles of endosymbiontic origin that contain more than one thousand different proteins. The vast majority of these proteins is synthesized in the cytosol and imported Into one of four mitochondrial subcompartments outer membrane, intermembrane space, inner membrane and matrix. Several import pathways exist and are committed to different classes of precursor proteins. The presequence translocase of the Inner mitochondnal membrane (TIM23 complex) mediates import of precursor proteins with cleavable amino-terminal presequences. Presequences direct precursors across the inner membrane. The combination of this presequence with adjacent regions determines if a precursor is fully translocated into the matrix or laterally sorted into the inner mitochondnal membrane. The membrane-embedded TIM23(SORT) complex mediates the membrane potential-dependent membrane insertion of precursor proteins with a stop-transfer sequence downstream of the mitochondnal targeting signal. In contrast, translocation of precursor proteins into the matrix requires the recruitment of the presequence translocase-associated motor (PAM) to the TIM23 complex This ATP-driven import motor consists of mitochondrial Hsp70 and several membrane-associated co-chaperones These two structurally and functionally distinct forms of the TIM23 complex (TIM23(SORT) and TIM23(MOTOR)) are in a dynamic equilibrium with each other In this review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of matrix translocation and membrane insertion by the TIM23 machinery (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved
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