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SUBMITTER: Horn D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2447134 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horn Darryl D Al-Ali Hassan H Barrientos Antoni A
Molecular and cellular biology 20080428 13
Copper is an essential cofactor of two mitochondrial enzymes: cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (Sod1p). Copper incorporation into these enzymes is facilitated by metallochaperone proteins which probably use copper from a mitochondrial matrix-localized pool. Here we describe a novel conserved mitochondrial metallochaperone-like protein, Cmc1p, whose function affects both COX and Sod1p. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cmc1p localizes to the mitochondrial inner membrane facing ...[more]