title: Sorting and assembly of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins.
abstract: In the last years the picture of protein import into the mitochondria has become much more complicated in terms of new components and new sorting pathways. These novel findings have also changed views concerning the biogenesis pathway of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins. In addition to proteins anchored with transmembrane alpha-helices, the endosymbiotic origin of the mitochondria has resulted in the presence of transmembrane beta-barrels in this compartment. The sorting and assembly pathway of outer membrane proteins involves three machineries: the translocase of the outer membrane (TOM complex) the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM complex) and the MDM complex (mitochondrial distribution and morphology). Here we review recent developments on the biogenesis pathways of outer membrane proteins with a focus on Tom proteins, the most intensively studied class of these precursor proteins.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Zentrum für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellforschung, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: F-Nora
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Vögtle
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stojanovski
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meisinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001692:Biological Transport; D002333:Carnitine Acyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D002333:Carnitine Acyltransferases