期刊
EMBO JOURNAL
卷 24, 期 23, 页码 4029-4040出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600862
关键词
ATP synthase; dyskinetoplasty; mitochondria; RNA editing; trypanosome
资金
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI014102, R37 AI014102, AI014102-28] Funding Source: Medline
Survival of bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei, the agent of African sleeping sickness, normally requires mitochondrial gene expression, despite the absence of oxidative phosphorylation in this stage of the parasite's life cycle. Here we report that silencing expression of the alpha subunit of the mitochondrial F-1-ATP synthase complex is lethal for bloodstream stage T. brucei as well as for T. evansi, a closely related species that lacks mitochondrial protein coding genes (i.e. is dyskinetoplastic). Our results suggest that the lethal effect is due to collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential, which is required for mitochondrial function and biogenesis. We also identified a mutation in the gamma subunit of F-1 that is likely to be involved in circumventing the requirement for mitochondrial gene expression in another dyskinetoplastic form. Our data reveal that the mitochondrial ATP synthase complex functions in the bloodstream stage opposite to that in the insect stage and in most other eukaryotes, namely using ATP hydrolysis to generate the mitochondrial membrane potential.
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