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Published 24 November 2003. doi:10.1083/jcb.200308004
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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2003/11/707 $8.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 163, Number 4, 707-713


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A J-protein is an essential subunit of the presequence translocase–associated protein import motor of mitochondria



Kaye N. Truscott1, Wolfgang Voos1, Ann E. Frazier1,2, Maria Lind1, Yanfeng Li1,2, Andreas Geissler1, Jan Dudek1,2, Hanne Müller1, Albert Sickmann3,4, Helmut E. Meyer3, Chris Meisinger1, Bernard Guiard5, Peter Rehling1 and Nikolaus Pfanner1

1 Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
2 Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
3 Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
4 Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Universität Würzburg, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
5 Laboratoire propre du CNRS Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Address correspondence to Nikolaus Pfanner, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. Tel.: 49-761-203-5224. Fax: 49-761-203-5261. email: Nikolaus.Pfanner{at}biochemie.uni-freiburg.de

Transport of preproteins into the mitochondrial matrix is mediated by the presequence translocase–associated motor (PAM). Three essential subunits of the motor are known: mitochondrial Hsp70 (mtHsp70); the peripheral membrane protein Tim44; and the nucleotide exchange factor Mge1. We have identified the fourth essential subunit of the PAM, an essential inner membrane protein of 18 kD with a J-domain that stimulates the ATPase activity of mtHsp70. The novel J-protein (encoded by PAM18/YLR008c/TIM14) is required for the interaction of mtHsp70 with Tim44 and protein translocation into the matrix. We conclude that the reaction cycle of the PAM of mitochondria involves an essential J-protein.

Key Words: Hsp70; J-protein; mitochondria; protein translocation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae


K.N. Truscott and W. Voos contributed equally to this work.

Abbreviations used in this paper: {Delta}{psi}, membrane potential; mtHsp70, mitochondrial Hsp70; PAM, presequence translocase–associated motor.


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