Danielle Leuenberger, Sean P Curran, David Wong, Carla M Koehler
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 2003 MarTim9p is located in the soluble 70-kDa Tim9p-Tim10p complex and the 300-kDa membrane complex in the mitochondrial TIM22 protein import system, which mediates the import of inner membrane proteins. From a collection of temperature-sensitive mutants, we have analyzed two in detail. tim9-3 contained two mutations and tim9-19 contained one mutation, all located near the 'twin CX3C' motif that is conserved in the small Tim proteins. As a result, the import components in the tim9-3 mutant mitochondria were severely reduced and assembled into complexes of aberrant sizes. Protein import was severely reduced and Tim9p and Tim10p binding to in vitro imported ADP/ATP carrier was impaired. In the tim9-19 mutant mitochondria, the 300-kDa membrane complex was assembled, although the soluble 70-kDa Tim9p-Tim10p complex was not detectable. Protein import was decreased only two-fold. When coexpressed in Escherichia coli, tim9-19 and TIM10 proteins failed to assemble into a 70-kDa complex. Our findings suggest that residues near the 'twin CX3C' motif are important for the assembly of Tim9p in both the Tim9p-Tim10p complex and the 300-kDa membrane complex.
Danielle Leuenberger, Sean P Curran, David Wong, Carla M Koehler. The role of Tim9p in the assembly of the TIM22 import complexes. Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark). 2003 Mar;4(3):144-52
PMID: 12656987
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