Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Elife. 2018 Jun 20;7:e34488. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34488.
Assembly and/or insertion of a subset of mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) proteins, including subunits of the main MOM translocase, require the fungi-specific Mim1/Mim2 complex. So far it was unclear which proteins accomplish this task in other eukaryotes. Here, we show by reciprocal complementation that the MOM protein pATOM36 of trypanosomes is a functional analogue of yeast Mim1/Mim2 complex, even though these proteins show neither sequence nor topological similarity. Expression of pATOM36 rescues almost all growth, mitochondrial biogenesis, and morphology defects in yeast cells lacking Mim1 and/or Mim2. Conversely, co-expression of Mim1 and Mim2 restores the assembly and/or insertion defects of MOM proteins in trypanosomes ablated for pATOM36. Mim1/Mim2 and pATOM36 form native-like complexes when heterologously expressed, indicating that additional proteins are not part of these structures. Our findings indicate that Mim1/Mim2 and pATOM36 are the products of convergent evolution and arose only after the ancestors of fungi and trypanosomatids diverged.
线粒体外膜(MOM)蛋白亚基的组装和/或插入,包括主要 MOM 易位酶的亚基,需要真菌特异性的 Mim1/Mim2 复合物。到目前为止,尚不清楚其他真核生物中的哪些蛋白质完成了这项任务。在这里,我们通过相互互补证明了原生动物的 MOM 蛋白 pATOM36 是酵母 Mim1/Mim2 复合物的功能类似物,尽管这些蛋白质既没有序列也没有拓扑相似性。pATOM36 的表达挽救了酵母细胞中缺乏 Mim1 和/或 Mim2 的几乎所有生长、线粒体生物发生和形态缺陷。相反,Mim1 和 Mim2 的共表达恢复了 pATOM36 缺失的原生动物中 MOM 蛋白的组装和/或插入缺陷。Mim1/Mim2 和 pATOM36 在异源表达时形成类似天然的复合物,表明这些结构不包含其他蛋白质。我们的研究结果表明,Mim1/Mim2 和 pATOM36 是趋同进化的产物,仅在真菌和原生动物的祖先分化后才出现。