Structure of the mitochondrial TIM22 complex from yeast

• 作者: Yutong Zhang Xiaomin Ou Xuezheng Wang Dongjie Sun Xueyin Zhou Xiaofei Wu Qing Li Lonq Li
• 来源期刊: 细胞研究（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
• 页码范围: 366-368
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dear Editor,Mitochondria have more than 1000 proteins,most of which are encoded by nuclear DNA and imported from the cytosol.1 A large group of multi-spanning membrane proteins,the solute carrier proteins,are imported from the cytosol by the translocase of the outer membrane (TOM) and translocated into the inner mem-brane (IM) by the T1M22 complex.2 The TIM22 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisioe (S.cerevisiae) has seven subunits:Tim22,Tim18,Tim54,Sdh3,Tim9,Tim10,and Tim12.Tim22 is the core translocase subunit.The three small Tim proteins,Tim9,Tim10,and Tim12,are homologous to each other.Tim9 and Tim10 form hexameric chaperones in the intermembrane space (IMS) to deliver the polypeptide substrates from the TOM to the TIM223 Tim9 and Tim"0 become part of the TIM22 complex with the help of Tim12.4 Tim54 likely interacts with Tim9-Timl0-Tim12 in the complex.5 Sdh3 is a membrane component of respiratory complex II (succinate dehydrogenase,SDH).Tim18 is homologous to Sdh4#the partner of Sdh3 in respiratory complex II.The functions of Sdh3 and Tim18 in the TIM22 complex are less clear.Previous studies have suggested that driven by the membrane potential,the T1M22 complex might function as a twin-pore translocase.6 However,it is poorly understood how the subunits of TIM22 assemble and accomplish protein translocation due to lack of high-resolution structural information.To address some of the fundamental questions in the field,we determined the electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of the endogenous TIM22 complex from S.cerevisiae.