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A novel insertion pathway of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins with multiple transmembrane segments
Correspondence to Katsuyoshi Mihara: mihara{at}cell.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
The central channel Tom40 of the preprotein translocase of outer membrane (TOM) complex is thought to be responsible for the import of virtually all preproteins synthesized outside the mitochondria. In this study, we analyze the topogenesis of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), which integrates into the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) through five hydrophobic transmembrane segments (TMSs) and functions in cholesterol import into the inner membrane. Analyses of in vitro and in vivo import into TOM component–depleted mitochondria reveal that PBR import (1) depends on the import receptor Tom70 but requires neither the Tom20 and Tom22 import receptors nor the import channel Tom40, (2) shares the post-Tom70 pathway with the C-tail–anchored proteins, and (3) requires factors of the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Furthermore, membrane integration of mitofusins and mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase, the MOM proteins with two and four TMSs, respectively, proceeds through the same initial pathway. These findings reveal a previously unidentified pathway of the membrane integration of MOM proteins with multiple TMSs.
Abbreviations used in this paper: BN, blue native; C-TA, C-terminal tail anchor; DHFR, dihydrofolate reductase; IMS, intermembrane space; MITOL, mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase; MOM, mitochondrial outer membrane; PBR, peripheral benzodiazepine receptor; SAM, sorting and assembly machinery; TMS, transmembrane segment; TOM, translocase of outer membrane.
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