title: The role of the membrane-spanning and extra-membranous regions of the iron-sulfur protein in its assembly into the cytochrome bc1 complex of yeast mitochondria.
abstract: The assembly of six deletion mutants of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein into the cytochrome bc1 complex was investigated by immunoprecipitation from detergent-solubilized mitochondria with specific antisera against either the iron-sulfur protein or the intact cytochrome bc1 complex. After import, the mutant proteins lacking residues 41-55 or 66-78, located at the membrane-spanning region of the protein, and residues 182-196 located at the C-terminus of the protein, were assembled in vitro into the bc1 complex approximately 50% as effectively as the wild type iron-sulfur protein suggesting that these regions of the iron-sulfur protein may not be critical for the assembly. By contrast, only trace amounts of the mutant proteins lacking residues 80-95, 122-135, 138-153 located in the extra-membranous region of the iron-sulfur protein were assembled into the bc1 complex. After import in vitro into mitochondria isolated from a cytochrome b-deficient yeast strain, the mutants lacking residues 41-55 and 182-196 were assembled as efficiently as the wild type; however, the mutants lacking residues 55-66 and 66-78 were assembled less efficiently in the absence of cytochrome b suggesting that the hydrophobic membrane-spanning region, residues 55-78, of the iron-sulfur protein, may interact with cytochrome b during the assembly of the bc1 complex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown 26506-9142, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Obungu
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Japa
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Beattie
mesh_terms: D014450:Electron Transport Complex III / Q000737:chemistry*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D011485:Protein Binding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C037989:Rieske iron-sulfur protein; D014450:Electron Transport Complex III