Leucine-Rich Pentatricopeptide-Repeat Containing Protein Regulates Mitochondrial Transcription

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• 作者：Neal Sondheimer ; Ji-Kang Fang ; Erzsebet Polyak ; Marni J. Falk ; Narayan G. Avadhani
• 刊名：Biochemistry
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：September 7, 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：49
• 期：35
• 页码：7467-7473
• 全文大小：848K
• 年卷期：v.49,no.35(September 7, 2010)
• ISSN：1520-4995

文摘

Mitochondrial function depends upon the coordinated expression of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. Although the basal factors that carry out the process of mitochondrial transcription are known, the regulation of this process is incompletely understood. To further our understanding of mitochondrial gene regulation, we identified proteins that bound to the previously described point of termination for the major mRNA-coding transcript H2. One was the leucine-rich pentatricopeptide-repeat containing protein (LRPPRC), which has been linked to the French-Canadian variant of Leigh syndrome. Cells with reduced expression of LRPPRC had a reduction in oxygen consumption. The expression of mitochondrial mRNA and tRNA was dependent upon LRPPRC levels, but reductions in LRPPRC did not affect the expression of mitochondrial rRNA. Reduction of LRPPRC levels interfered with mitochondrial transcription in vitro but did not affect the stability of mitochondrial mRNAs or alter the expression of nuclear genes responsible for mitochondrial transcription in vivo. These findings demonstrate the control of mitochondrial mRNA synthesis by a protein that has an established role in regulating nuclear transcription and a link to mitochondrial disease.