title: Identification of the yeast ARG-11 gene as a mitochondrial ornithine carrier involved in arginine biosynthesis.
abstract: The ARG-11 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a protein with the characteristic features of a family of 35 related membrane proteins that are encoded in the fungal genome. Some of them are known to transport various substrates and products across the inner membranes of mitochondria, but the functions of 29 members of the family are unknown. The yeast ARG-11 protein has been over-produced as inclusion bodies in Escherichia coli. It has been solubilized in the presence of sarkosyl, re-constituted into liposomes and shown to transport ornithine in exchange for protons. Its main physiological role is probably to take ornithine synthesized from glutamate in the mitochondrial matrix to the cytosol where it is converted to arginine.
authors.affiliation: The M.R.C. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Palmieri
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: De Marco
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Iacobazzi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palmieri
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Runswick
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D026923:Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic; D001120:Arginine / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D033681:Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009952:Ornithine / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D026923:Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D033681:Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins; C101833:ORT1 protein, S cerevisiae; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C041356:ornithine transporter; D001120:Arginine; D009952:Ornithine