Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Global kinome profiling reveals DYRK1A as critical activator of the human mitochondrial import machinery

  • Corvin Walter,
  • Adinarayana Marada,
  • Tamara Suhm,
  • Ralf Ernsberger,
  • Vera Muders,
  • Cansu Kücükköse,
  • Pablo Sánchez-Martín,
  • Zehan Hu,
  • Abhishek Aich,
  • Stefan Loroch,
  • Fiorella Andrea Solari,
  • Daniel Poveda-Huertes,
  • Alexandra Schwierzok,
  • Henrike Pommerening,
  • Stanka Matic,
  • Jan Brix,
  • Albert Sickmann,
  • Claudine Kraft,
  • Jörn Dengjel,
  • Sven Dennerlein,
  • Tilman Brummer,
  • F.-Nora Vögtle,
  • Chris Meisinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24426-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Mitochondrial protein import is mediated by the translocase of the outer membrane (TOM), through which nearly all precursors traverse. Here, the authors perform global in vitro kinome profiling and by this identify that DYRK1A phosphorylates TOM70 and promotes import.