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SUBMITTER: Taskin AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5391191 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taskin Asli Aras AA Kücükköse Cansu C Burger Nils N Mossmann Dirk D Meisinger Chris C Vögtle F-Nora FN
Molecular biology of the cell 20170222 8
Approximately 70% of mitochondrial precursor proteins are imported from the cytosol via N-terminal presequences, which are cleaved upon exposure to the mitochondrial processing protease MPP in the matrix. Cleaved presequence peptides then need to be efficiently degraded, and impairment of this clearance step, for example, by amyloid β peptides, causes feedback inhibition of MPP, leading ultimately to accumulation of immature precursor proteins within mitochondria. Degradation of mitochondrial pe ...[more]