Mitochondrial protein import: from proteomics to functional mechanisms

O Schmidt, N Pfanner, C Meisinger - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2010 - nature.com
Mitochondria contain∼ 1,000 different proteins, most of which are imported from the cytosol.
Two import pathways that direct proteins into the mitochondrial inner membrane and matrix …

Importing mitochondrial proteins: machineries and mechanisms

A Chacinska, CM Koehler, D Milenkovic, T Lithgow… - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes and must be imported
across one or both mitochondrial membranes. There is an amazingly versatile set of …

Mistargeted mitochondrial proteins activate a proteostatic response in the cytosol

L Wrobel, U Topf, P Bragoszewski, S Wiese… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Most of the mitochondrial proteome originates from nuclear genes and is transported into the
mitochondria after synthesis in the cytosol. Complex machineries which maintain the …

Structure of the mitochondrial import gate reveals distinct preprotein paths

Y Araiso, A Tsutsumi, J Qiu, K Imai, T Shiota, J Song… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane (TOM) is the main entry gate for
proteins,,–. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to report the structure of the yeast TOM …

[HTML][HTML] Dual role of mitofilin in mitochondrial membrane organization and protein biogenesis

K von der Malsburg, JM Müller, M Bohnert… - Developmental cell, 2011 - cell.com
The mitochondrial inner membrane consists of two domains, inner boundary membrane and
cristae membrane that are connected by crista junctions. Mitofilin/Fcj1 was reported to be …

Quantitative proteomics identifies redox switches for global translation modulation by mitochondrially produced reactive oxygen species

U Topf, I Suppanz, L Samluk, L Wrobel, A Böser… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is inevitably linked to life. However, the
precise role of ROS in signalling and specific targets is largely unknown. We perform a …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial protein import: common principles and physiological networks

J Dudek, P Rehling, M van der Laan - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
Most mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus. They are synthesized as precursor
forms in the cytosol and must be imported into mitochondria with the help of different protein …

Cytosolic aggregation of mitochondrial proteins disrupts cellular homeostasis by stimulating the aggregation of other proteins

U Nowicka, P Chroscicki, K Stroobants, M Sladowska… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Mitochondria are organelles with their own genomes, but they rely on the import of nuclear-
encoded proteins that are translated by cytosolic ribosomes. Therefore, it is important to …

Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process

J Riemer, N Bulleid, JM Herrmann - Science, 2009 - science.org
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) was long considered to be the only compartment of the
eukaryotic cell in which protein folding is accompanied by enzyme-catalyzed disulfide bond …

How proteins form disulfide bonds

M Depuydt, J Messens, JF Collet - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2011 - liebertpub.com
The identification of protein disulfide isomerase, almost 50 years ago, opened the way to the
study of oxidative protein folding. Oxidative protein folding refers to the composite process …