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Mitochondrial methionyl N-formylation affects steady-state levels of oxidative phosphorylation complexes and their organization into supercomplexes

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Arguello, Tania; Köhrer, Caroline; RajBhandary, Uttam L.; Moraes, Carlos T.
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N-Formylation of the Met-tRNA Met by the nuclearly encoded mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase (MTFMT) has been found to be a key determinant of protein synthesis initiation in mitochondria. In humans, mutations in the MTFMTgene result in Leigh syndrome, a progressive and severe neurometabolic disorder. However, the absolute requirement of formylation of Met-tRNA Met for protein synthesis in mammalian mitochondria is still debated. Here, we generated a Mtfmt-KO mouse fibroblast cell line and demonstrated that N-formylation of the first methionine via fMet-tRNA Met by MTFMTis not an absolute requirement for initiation of protein synthesis. However, it differentially affected the efficiency of synthesis of mtDNA-coded polypeptides. Lack of methionine N-formylation did not compromise the stability of these individual subunits but had a marked effect on the assembly and stability of the OXPHOS complexes I and IV and on their supercomplexes. In summary, N-formylation is not essential for mitochondrial protein synthesis but is critical for efficient synthesis of several mitochondrially encoded peptides and for OXPHOS complex stability and assembly into supercomplexes.
Date issued
2018-08
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125164
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Journal
Journal of Biological Chemistry
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American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
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Arguello, Tania et al. "Mitochondrial methionyl N-formylation affects steady-state levels of oxidative phosphorylation complexes and their organization into supercomplexes." Journal of Biological Chemistry 293, 39 (August 2018): 15021-15032. © 2018 Arguello et al.
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0021-9258
1083-351X

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