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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 141, 期 6, 页码 889-895出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvm095
关键词
FRET; GFP; mitochondria; processing; protease
Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP), which is composed of heterodimeric alpha-MPP and beta-MPP subunits. It specifically recognizes mitochondrial preproteins and removes their basic N-terminal signal prepeptides. In order to elucidate the spatial orientation of the preproteins toward MPP, which has been missed by crystal structures of a yeast MPP including a synthetic prepeptide in its acidic proteolytic chamber, we analysed the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between EGFP fused to a yeast aconitase presequence (preEGFP) and regiospecific 7-dietylamino-3-(4'-maleimidyl phenyl)-4-methyl coumarin (CPM)-labelled yeast MPPs. FRET efficiencies of 65 and 55% were observed between the EGFP chromophore and CPM-Ser(84) and -Lys(156) of beta-MPP, respectively, leading to calculated distances between the molecules of 48 and 50 angstrom, respectively. Considering the FRET results and the structural validity based on the crystal structure of the MPP-presequence complex, a plausible model of preEGFP associated with MPP was constructed in silico. The modelled structure indicated that amino acid residues on the C-terminal side of the cleavage site in the preprotein were orientated tail out from the large cavity of MPP and interacted with the glycine-rich loop of alpha-MPP. Thus, MPP orientates preproteins at the specific cleft between the catalytic domain and the flexible glycine-rich loop which seems to pinch the extended polypeptide.
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