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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6-7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-21
pubmed:abstractText
Gram-negative bacteria are the ancestors of mitochondrial organelles. Consequently, both entities contain two surrounding lipid bilayers known as the inner and outer membranes. While protein synthesis in bacteria is accomplished in the cytoplasm, mitochondria import 90-99% of their protein ensemble from the cytosol in the opposite direction. Three protein families including Sam50, VDAC and Tom40 together with Mdm10 compose the set of integral beta-barrel proteins embedded in the mitochondrial outer membrane in S. cerevisiae (MOM). The 16-stranded Sam50 protein forms part of the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM) and shows a clear evolutionary relationship to members of the bacterial Omp85 family. By contrast, the evolution of VDAC and Tom40, both adopting the same fold cannot be traced to any bacterial precursor. This finding is in agreement with the specific function of Tom40 in the TOM complex not existent in the enslaved bacterial precursor cell. Models of Tom40 and Sam50 have been developed using X-ray structures of related proteins. These models are analyzed with respect to properties such as conservation and charge distribution yielding features related to their individual functions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1797
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1292-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Gram-Negative Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Mitochondrial Membranes, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Static Electricity, pubmed-meshheading:20450883-Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels
pubmed:articleTitle
Structure and evolution of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins of beta-barrel topology.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, Department Protein Evolution, Spemannstr. 35, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. Kornelius.zeth@tuebingen.mpg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review