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ArticleNucleic acids research2020

The translational activator Sov1 coordinates mitochondrial gene expression with mitoribosome biogenesis.

Suhas R Seshadri, Chitra Banarjee, Mario H Barros, Flavia Fontanesi

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Regulation of cellular proteostasis via mitochondrial protein import.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  2. The complexities of respiratory chain biogenesis and maintenance in yeast mitochondria.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  4. The late stages of yeast mitoribosome large subunit biogenesis.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research · 2025
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  10. Methods to Study the Biogenesis of Mitoribosomal Proteins in Yeast.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  15. The Diseased Mitoribosome.FEBS letters · 2021
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  16. The Mitogenomes ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Suhas R SeshadriDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Chitra BanarjeeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Mario H BarrosDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-900, Brazil.
Flavia FontanesiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
University of Miami · USUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitoribosome biogenesis is an expensive metabolic process that is essential to maintain cellular respiratory capacity and requires the stoichiometric accumulation of rRNAs and proteins encoded in two distinct genomes. In yeast, the ribosomal protein Var1, alias uS3m, is mitochondrion-encoded. uS3m is a protein universally present in all ribosomes, where it forms part of the small subunit (SSU) mRNA entry channel and plays a pivotal role in ribosome loading onto the mRNA. However, despite its critical functional role, very little is known concerning VAR1 gene expression. Here, we demonstrate that the protein Sov1 is an in bona fide VAR1 mRNA translational activator and additionally interacts with newly synthesized Var1 polypeptide. Moreover, we show that Sov1 assists the late steps of mtSSU biogenesis involving the incorporation of Var1, an event necessary for uS14 and mS46 assembly. Notably, we have uncovered a translational regulatory mechanism by which Sov1 fine-tunes Var1 synthesis with its assembly into the mitoribosome.

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DNA, MitochondrialGene Expression Regulation, FungalMembrane ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsMitochondrial RibosomesRibosomal ProteinsRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNA, MitochondrialMembrane ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsRibosomal ProteinsRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSOV1 protein, S cerevisiaeVAR1 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID32449921
PMCPMC7337963
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