Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Proteolysis of adaptor protein Mmr1 during budding is necessary for mitochondrial homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Keisuke Obara,
  • Taku Yoshikawa,
  • Ryu Yamaguchi,
  • Keiko Kuwata,
  • Kunio Nakatsukasa,
  • Kohei Nishimura,
  • Takumi Kamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29704-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Mitochondria are transported to daughter cells by myosin via an adaptor protein Mmr1 during budding in yeast. Here they show that the regulated proteolysis of Mmr1 after mitochondria inheritance is required for mitochondrial homeostasis.