Transport of proteins to the mitochondrial intermembrane space: the 'sorting' domain of the cytochrome c1 presequence is a stop-transfer sequence specific for the mitochondrial inner membrane.
AUTOR(ES)
van Loon, A P
RESUMO
The presequence of yeast cytochrome c1 (an inner membrane protein protruding into the intermembrane space) contains a matrix-targeting domain and an intramitochondrial sorting domain. This presequence transports attached subunit IV of cytochrome c oxidase into the intermembrane space (van Loon et al. (1987) EMBO J., 6, 2433-2439). In order to determine how this fusion protein reaches the intermembrane space, we studied the kinetics of its import into isolated mitochondria or mitoplasts and its accumulation in the various submitochondrial compartments. The imported, uncleaved fusion precursor and a cleavage intermediate were bound to the inner membrane and were always exposed to the intermembrane space; they were never found at the matrix side of the inner membrane. In contrast, analogous import experiments with the authentic subunit IV precursor, or the precursor of the iron-sulphur protein of the cytochrome bc1 complex also an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space), readily showed that these precursors were initially transported across both mitochondrial membranes. We conclude that the intramitochondrial sorting domain within the cytochrome c1 presequence prevents transport of attached proteins across the inner, but not the outer membrane: it is a stop-transfer sequence for the inner membrane. Since the presequence of the iron-sulphur protein lacks such 'stop-transfer' domain, it acts by a different mechanism.
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