title: A bovine mtDNA-binding protein to a conserved sequence adjacent to the termination associated sequence in the vertebrate mitochondrial displacement loop region.
abstract: We have found a sequence-specific mitochondrial (mt) DNA-binding protein in bovine mitochondria. The binding site designated Mt5 is adjacent to the termination associated sequence in the vertebrate mt displacement loop region and is interspecifically conserved. An UV-crosslinking and gel filtration demonstrated that a Mt5-binding protein (designated Mt5BP) exists in the mitochondria as a homodimer of an approximately 97-kDa polypeptide. The nucleotide sequence of Mt5 is homologous to that of the binding site for the recently reported mt pause-region binding protein (mtPBP) 1 from sea urchin embryo mitochondria. Gel mobility shift competition experiments indicated that Mt5BP can recognize human sequence couterparts for the mtPBP1-binding site. These results suggest that Mt5BP is related to mtPBP1 with respect to discontinuance of heavy-strand synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Chemistry, University of Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ozawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D017124:Conserved Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D013728:Terminator Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins