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ArticleThe EMBO journal2004

Essential role of Mia40 in import and assembly of mitochondrial intermembrane space proteins.

Agnieszka Chacinska, Sylvia Pfannschmidt, Nils Wiedemann, Vera Kozjak, Luiza K Sanjuán Szklarz, Agnes Schulze-Specking, Kaye N Truscott, Bernard Guiard, Chris Meisinger, Nikolaus Pfanner

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 187 papers.

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187citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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187 citing papers in PubMed, 455 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Agnieszka ChacinskaInstitut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Sylvia Pfannschmidt
Nils Wiedemann
Vera Kozjak
Luiza K Sanjuán Szklarz
Agnes Schulze-Specking
Kaye N Truscott
Bernard Guiard
Chris Meisinger
Nikolaus Pfanner
University of Freiburg · DECentre de Génétique Moléculaire · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondria import nuclear-encoded precursor proteins to four different subcompartments. Specific import machineries have been identified that direct the precursor proteins to the mitochondrial outer membrane, inner membrane or matrix, respectively. However, a machinery dedicated to the import of mitochondrial intermembrane space (IMS) proteins has not been found so far. We have identified the essential IMS protein Mia40 (encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae open reading frame YKL195w). Mitochondria with a mutant form of Mia40 are selectively inhibited in the import of several small IMS proteins, including the essential proteins Tim9 and Tim10. The import of proteins to the other mitochondrial subcompartments does not depend on functional Mia40. The binding of small Tim proteins to Mia40 is crucial for their transport across the outer membrane and represents an initial step in their assembly into IMS complexes. We conclude that Mia40 is a central component of the protein import and assembly machinery of the mitochondrial IMS.

Indexed as

Protein TransportAmino Acid SequenceIntracellular MembranesMembrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsMitochondriaMitochondrial Membrane Transport ProteinsMitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataMutationSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsMIA40 protein, S cerevisiaeMitochondrial Membrane Transport ProteinsMitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTIM10 protein, S cerevisiaeTim9 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID15359280
PMCPMC522791
OpenAlexW2092460504

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