Acyl modification and binding of mitochondrial ACP to multiprotein complexes

Publication date: Available online 9 August 2017
Source:Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
Author(s): Heike Angerer, Stefan Schönborn, Jan Gorka, Ute Bahr, Michael Karas, Ilka Wittig, Juliana Heidler, Jan Hoffmann, Nina Morgner, Volker Zickermann
The mitochondrial acyl carrier protein (ACPM/NDUFAB1) is a central element of the mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis type II machinery. Originally ACPM was detected as a subunit of respiratory complex I but the reason for the association with the large enzyme complex remained elusive. Complex I from the aerobic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica comprises two different ACPMs, ACPM1 and ACPM2. They are anchored to the protein complex by LYR (leucine-tyrosine-arginine) motif containing protein (LYRM) subunits LYRM3 (NDUFB9) and LYRM6 (NDUFA6). The ACPM1-LYRM6 and ACPM2-LYRM3 modules are essential for complex I activity and assembly/stability, respectively. We show that in addition to the complex I bound fraction, ACPM1 is present as a free matrix protein and in complex with the soluble LYRM4(ISD11)/NFS1 complex implicated in Fe-S cluster biogenesis. We show that the presence of a long acyl chain bound to the phosphopantetheine cofactor is important for docking ACPMs to protein complexes and we propose that association of ACPMs and LYRMs is universally based on a new protein-protein interaction motif.

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