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SUBMITTER: Ott M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1440829 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ott Martin M Prestele Martin M Bauerschmitt Heike H Funes Soledad S Bonnefoy Nathalie N Herrmann Johannes M JM
The EMBO journal 20060406 8
The genome of mitochondria encodes a small number of very hydrophobic polypeptides that are inserted into the inner membrane in a cotranslational reaction. The molecular process by which mitochondrial ribosomes are recruited to the membrane is poorly understood. Here, we show that the inner membrane protein Mba1 binds to the large subunit of mitochondrial ribosomes. It thereby cooperates with the C-terminal ribosome-binding domain of Oxa1, which is a central component of the insertion machinery ...[more]