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ArticleScience advances2025

ARMC1 partitions between distinct complexes and assembles MIRO with MTFR to control mitochondrial distribution.

Michael J McKenna, Felix Kraus, João P L Coelho, Muskaan Vasandani, Jiuchun Zhang, Benjamin M Adams, Joao A Paulo, J Wade Harper, Sichen Shao

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  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  4. Functions of J-domain proteins in mitochondrial protein biogenesis.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
    Review
  5. MTFR1L is a cardiac antiaging factor for maintenance of mitochondrial homeostasis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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Michael J McKennaDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8949-817X
Felix KrausDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3757-541X
João P L CoelhoDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7366-1614
Muskaan VasandaniDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0279-2083
Jiuchun ZhangDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Benjamin M AdamsDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9980-5321
Joao A PauloDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4291-413X
J Wade HarperDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6944-7236
Sichen ShaoDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2679-5537

Funding

Regulation of PINK1 and PARKIN-Dependent MitophagyR01NS083524 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HARPER, JEFFREY W · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
Quality control of mislocalized membrane proteinsR01AG073277 · NIA · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Sichen Shao · 2022 to 2026
$1.7M
Advancing Multiplexed Isobaric Tag-based Strategies for Proteome ProfilingR01GM132129 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PAULO, JOAO A · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073277NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132129NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083524
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintaining an optimal mitochondrial distribution is critical to ensure an adequate supply of energy and metabolites to support important cellular functions. How cells balance dynamic mitochondrial processes to achieve homeostasis is incompletely understood. Here, we show that ARMC1 partitioning between distinct mitochondrial protein complexes is a key determinant of mitochondrial distribution. In one complex, the mitochondrial trafficking adaptor MIRO recruits ARMC1, which mediates the assembly of a mitochondrial fission regulator (MTFR). MTFR stability depends on ARMC1, and MIRO-MTFR complexes specifically antagonize retrograde mitochondrial movement. In another complex, DNAJC11 facilitates ARMC1 release from mitochondria. Disrupting MIRO-MTFR assembly fails to rescue aberrant mitochondrial distributions clustered in the perinuclear area observed with ARMC1 deletion, while disrupting ARMC1 interaction with DNAJC11 leads to excessive mitochondrially localized ARMC1 and distinct mitochondrial defects. Thus, the abundance and trafficking impact of MIRO-MTFR complexes require ARMC1, whose mito-cytoplasmic shuttling balanced by DNAJC11 tunes steady-state mitochondrial distributions.

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MitochondriaMitochondrial DynamicsMitochondrial Proteinsrho GTP-Binding ProteinsAnimalsHumansProtein BindingProtein TransportMitochondrial Proteinsrho GTP-Binding Proteins

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PMID40203102
PMCPMC11980836

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