Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Separating mitochondrial protein assembly and endoplasmic reticulum tethering by selective coupling of Mdm10

  • Lars Ellenrieder,
  • Łukasz Opaliński,
  • Lars Becker,
  • Vivien Krüger,
  • Oliver Mirus,
  • Sebastian P. Straub,
  • Katharina Ebell,
  • Nadine Flinner,
  • Sebastian B. Stiller,
  • Bernard Guiard,
  • Chris Meisinger,
  • Nils Wiedemann,
  • Enrico Schleiff,
  • Richard Wagner,
  • Nikolaus Pfanner,
  • Thomas Becker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13021
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The protein Mdm10 is known to be present in the endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria encounter structure (ERMES) and in mitochondrial sorting and assembly machinery (SAM). Here, the authors examine how this protein interacts with SAM and EMRES, showing that the SAM-mediated protein machinery is independent of ERMES.