Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in mitochondria

E Kummer, N Ban - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondria are cellular organelles responsible for generation of chemical energy in the
process called oxidative phosphorylation. They originate from a bacterial ancestor and …

Mitochondrial transcription and translation: overview

AR D'Souza, M Minczuk - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Mitochondria are the major source of ATP in the cell. Five multi-subunit complexes in the
inner membrane of the organelle are involved in the oxidative phosphorylation required for …

Mitochondrial protein translation: emerging roles and clinical significance in disease

F Wang, D Zhang, D Zhang, P Li, Y Gao - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are one of the most important organelles in cells. Mitochondria are semi-
autonomous organelles with their own genetic system, and can independently replicate …

Inhibition of mitochondrial translation as a therapeutic strategy for human acute myeloid leukemia

M Škrtić, S Sriskanthadevan, B Jhas, M Gebbia… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
To identify FDA-approved agents targeting leukemic cells, we performed a chemical screen
on two human leukemic cell lines and identified the antimicrobial tigecycline. A genome …

Organization and regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis

M Ott, A Amunts, A Brown - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are essential organelles of endosymbiotic origin that are responsible for
oxidative phosphorylation within eukaryotic cells. Independent evolution between species …

Structure and function of the mitochondrial ribosome

BJ Greber, N Ban - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) perform protein synthesis inside mitochondria, the
organelles responsible for energy conversion and adenosine triphosphate production in …

Mitochondrial ribosomes in cancer

HJ Kim, P Maiti, A Barrientos - Seminars in cancer biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Mitochondria play fundamental roles in the regulation of life and death of eukaryotic cells.
They mediate aerobic energy conversion through the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) …

Making proteins in the powerhouse

BM Hällberg, NG Larsson - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Understanding regulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) expression is of considerable
interest given that mitochondrial dysfunction is important in human pathology and aging …

Unique features of mammalian mitochondrial translation initiation revealed by cryo-EM

E Kummer, M Leibundgut, O Rackham, RG Lee… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Mitochondria maintain their own specialized protein synthesis machinery, which in
mammals is used exclusively for the synthesis of the membrane proteins responsible for …

Mechanism of protein biosynthesis in mammalian mitochondria

BE Christian, LL Spremulli - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2012 - Elsevier
Protein synthesis in mammalian mitochondria produces 13 proteins that are essential
subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation complexes. This review provides a detailed outline …