title: Conserved and novel functions for Arabidopsis thaliana MIA40 in assembly of proteins in mitochondria and peroxisomes.
abstract: The disulfide relay system of the mitochondrial intermembrane space has been extensively characterized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It contains two essential components, Mia40 and Erv1. The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains a single gene for each of these components. Although insertional inactivation of Erv1 leads to a lethal phenotype, inactivation of Mia40 results in no detectable deleterious phenotype. A. thaliana Mia40 is targeted to and accumulates in mitochondria and peroxisomes. Inactivation of Mia40 results in an alteration of several proteins in mitochondria, an absence of copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (CSD1), the chaperone for superoxide dismutase (Ccs1) that inserts copper into CSD1, and a decrease in capacity and amount of complex I. In peroxisomes the absence of Mia40 leads to an absence of CSD3 and a decrease in abnormal inflorescence meristem 1 (Aim1), a β-oxidation pathway enzyme. Inactivation of Mia40 leads to an alteration of the transcriptome of A. thaliana, with genes encoding peroxisomal proteins, redox functions, and biotic stress significantly changing in abundance. Thus, the mechanistic operation of the mitochondrial disulfide relay system is different in A. thaliana compared with other systems, and Mia40 has taken on new roles in peroxisomes and mitochondria.
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carrie
authors.forename: Estelle
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Giraud
authors.forename: Owen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shaobai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Clifton
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murcha
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filipovska
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rackham
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vrielink
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whelan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D015153:Blotting, Western; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D020043:Genes, Essential / Q000235:genetics; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D000090622:Mitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex Proteins; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional; D009154:Mutation; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020675:Peroxisomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D021381:Protein Transport; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C401414:AIM1 protein, Arabidopsis; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C555649:Erv1 protein, Arabidopsis; C555648:Mia40 protein, Arabidopsis; D000090622:Mitochondrial Precursor Protein Import Complex Proteins; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; C036483:T-DNA; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase