Sam35 of the mitochondrial protein sorting and assembly machinery is a peripheral outer membrane protein essential for cell viability |
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Authors: | Milenkovic Dusanka Kozjak Vera Wiedemann Nils Lohaus Christiane Meyer Helmut E Guiard Bernard Pfanner Nikolaus Meisinger Chris |
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Institution: | Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universit?t Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. |
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Abstract: | The mitochondrial outer membrane contains two integral proteins essential for cell viability, Tom40 of the translocase of the outer membrane (TOM complex) and Sam50 of the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM complex). Here we report the identification of Sam35, the first peripheral mitochondrial outer membrane protein that is essential for cell viability. Sam35 (encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ORF YHR083w) is a novel subunit of the SAM complex and is crucial for the assembly pathway of outer membrane beta-barrel proteins, such as the precursors of Tom40 and porin. Sam35 is not required for the import of inner membrane or matrix targeted proteins. The presence of two essential proteins in the SAM complex, Sam35 and Sam50, indicates that it plays a central role in mitochondrial biogenesis. |
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