Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-15-2018

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This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Molecular Cell, Volume 72, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 778-785.e3.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2018.09.008. Copyright © Paillard et al.

Abstract

Proper control of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter’s pore (MCU) is required to allow Ca2+ dependent activation of oxidative metabolism and to avoid mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and cell death. The MCU’s gatekeeping and cooperative activation is mediated by the Ca2+ sensing MICU1 protein, which has been proposed to form dimeric complexes anchored to the EMRE scaffold of MCU. We unexpectedly find that MICU1 suppresses inhibition of MCU by ruthenium red/Ru360, which bind to MCU’s DIME motif, the selectivity filter. This led us to recognize in MICU1’s sequence, a putative DIME Interacting Domain (DID) which is required for both gatekeeping and cooperative activation of MCU and for cell survival. Thus, we propose that MICU1 has to interact with the D-ring formed by the DIME domains in MCU to control the uniporter.

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PubMed ID

30454562

Language

English

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