SGD Paper 
Luo W, et al. (2006) Substrate specificity of inner membrane peptidase in yeast mitochondria. Mol Genet Genomics 275(5):431-6
Abstract: The inner membrane protease (IMP) cleaves intra-organelle sorting peptides from precursor proteins in mitochondria of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. An unusual feature of the IMP is the presence of two catalytic subunits, Imp1p and Imp2p, which recognize distinct substrate sets even though both enzymes belong to the same protease family. This nonoverlapping substrate specificity was hypothesized to result from the recognition of distinct residues at the P'(1) position (also termed +1 position) in the protease substrates. Here, we constructed an extensive series of mutations to obtain a profile of the critical cleavage site residues in IMP substrates and conclude that Imp1p, and not Imp2p, recognizes specific P'(1) residues. In addition to its specificity for P'(1) residues, Imp1p also shows substrate specificity for the P(3) (-3) position. In contrast, Imp2p recognizes the P(1) (-1) position and the P(3) position. Based on this new understanding of IMP substrate specificity, we conducted a survey for candidate IMP substrates in mammalian mitochondria and found consensus Imp2p cleavage sites in mammalian precursors to cytochrome c(1) and glycerol-3-phosphate (G-3-P) dehydrogenase. Presence of a putative Imp2p cleavage site in G-3-P dehydrogenase was surprising, as its yeast ortholog contains an Imp1p cleavage site. To address this issue experimentally, we performed the first co-expression of mammalian IMP with proposed mammalian IMP precursors in yeast and show that murine precursors to cytochrome c(1) and G-3-P dehydrogenase are cleaved by murine Imp2p. These results suggest, surprisingly, G-3-P dehydrogenase has switched from Imp1p in yeast to Imp2p in mammals.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 16450175 |
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