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A novel system to monitor mitochondrial translation in yeast.

ABSTRACT: The mitochondrial genome is responsible for the production of a handful of polypeptides that are core subunits of the membrane-bound oxidative phosphorylation system. Until now the mechanistic studies of mitochondrial protein synthesis inside cells have been conducted with inhibition of cytoplasmic protein synthesis to reduce the background of nuclear gene expression with the undesired consequence of major disturbances of cellular signaling cascades. Here we have generated a system that allows direct monitoring of mitochondrial translation in unperturbed cells. A recoded gene for superfolder GFP was inserted into the yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) mitochondrial genome and enabled the detection of translation through fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry in functional mitochondria. This novel tool allows the investigation of the function and regulation of mitochondrial translation during stress signaling, aging and mitochondrial biogenesis.

SUBMITTER: Suhm T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5826703 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

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A novel system to monitor mitochondrial translation in yeast.

Suhm Tamara T Habernig Lukas L Rzepka Magdalena M Kaimal Jayasankar Mohanakrishnan JM Andréasson Claes C Büttner Sabrina S Ott Martin M

Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) 20180113 3

The mitochondrial genome is responsible for the production of a handful of polypeptides that are core subunits of the membrane-bound oxidative phosphorylation system. Until now the mechanistic studies of mitochondrial protein synthesis inside cells have been conducted with inhibition of cytoplasmic protein synthesis to reduce the background of nuclear gene expression with the undesired consequence of major disturbances of cellular signaling cascades. Here we have generated a system that allows d ...[more]

PMID: 29487862

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