Mitochondrial protein transport: Versatility of translocases and mechanisms

JD Busch, LF Fielden, N Pfanner, N Wiedemann - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Biogenesis of mitochondria requires the import of approximately 1,000 different precursor
proteins into and across the mitochondrial membranes. Mitochondria exhibit a wide variety …

Quality control of the mitochondrial proteome

J Song, JM Herrmann, T Becker - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Mitochondria contain about 1,000–1,500 proteins that fulfil multiple functions.
Mitochondrial proteins originate from two genomes: mitochondrial and nuclear. Hence …

Mitochondrial proteins: from biogenesis to functional networks

N Pfanner, B Warscheid, N Wiedemann - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Mitochondria are essential for the viability of eukaryotic cells as they perform crucial
functions in bioenergetics, metabolism and signalling and have been associated with …

Mitochondrial machineries for protein import and assembly

N Wiedemann, N Pfanner - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are essential organelles with numerous functions in cellular metabolism and
homeostasis. Most of the> 1,000 different mitochondrial proteins are synthesized as …

MitoFates: improved prediction of mitochondrial targeting sequences and their cleavage sites*[S]

Y Fukasawa, J Tsuji, SC Fu, K Tomii… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2015 - mcponline.org
Mitochondria provide numerous essential functions for cells and their dysfunction leads to a
variety of diseases. Thus, obtaining a complete mitochondrial proteome should be a crucial …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial homeostasis and cellular senescence

PVS Vasileiou, K Evangelou, K Vlasis, MI Panayiotidis… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cellular senescence refers to a stress response aiming to preserve cellular and, therefore,
organismal homeostasis. Importantly, deregulation of mitochondrial homeostatic …

New roles for mitochondrial proteases in health, ageing and disease

PM Quirós, T Langer, C López-Otín - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in mitochondrial biology have revealed the high diversity and complexity
of proteolytic enzymes that regulate mitochondrial function. We have classified mitochondrial …

The N‐end rule pathway and regulation by proteolysis

A Varshavsky - Protein science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The N‐end rule relates the regulation of the in vivo half‐life of a protein to the identity of its N‐
terminal residue. Degradation signals (degrons) that are targeted by the N‐end rule pathway …

[HTML][HTML] The protein import machinery of mitochondria—a regulatory hub in metabolism, stress, and disease

AB Harbauer, RP Zahedi, A Sickmann, N Pfanner… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Mitochondria fulfill central functions in bioenergetics, metabolism, and apoptosis. They
import more than 1,000 different proteins from the cytosol. It had been assumed that the …

Amyloid-β peptide induces mitochondrial dysfunction by inhibition of preprotein maturation

D Mossmann, FN Vögtle, AA Taskin, PF Teixeira… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Most mitochondrial proteins possess N-terminal presequences that are required for targeting
and import into the organelle. Upon import, presequences are cleaved off by matrix …