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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2014 Sep 7;515(7525):80–84. doi: 10.1038/nature13686

TABLE 4. Knowledge about the supernumerary subunits of B. taurus complex I.

B. taurus subunit* H. sapiens subunit* Subcomplex Sequence information Predicted TMHs
10 kDa NDUFV3 Iα and Iλ 0
18 kDa NDUFS4 Iα and Iλ 0
15 kDa NDUFS5 Iα only CX9C motif, intermembrane space37 0
13 kDa NDUFS6 Iα and Iλ PFAM zinc-finger motif CX8HX15CX2C 0
MWFE NDUFA1 Iα only 1
B8 NDUFA2 Iα and Iλ 0
B9 NDUFA3 Iα only 1
B13 NDUFA5 Iα and Iλ 0
B14 NDUFA6 Iα only LYR motif32 0
B14.5a NDUFA7 Iα and Iλ 0
PGIV NDUFA8 Iα only Two CX9C motifs, PFAM CHCH domain intermembrane space37 0
39 kDa NDUFA9 Iα only Short-chain dehydrogenase reductase family, NADP binding26,27 0
42 kDa NDUFA10 Iα only (low level) Similarity to deoxynucleoside kinases24 0
B14.7 NDUFA11 Iα (Iλ at low level) 3 or 4
B17.2 NDUFA12 Iα and Iλ 0
B16.6 NDUFA13 Iα and Iλ 1
SDAP NDUFAB1 both Iα Iβ Acyl-carrier protein29,30 0
MNLL NDUFB1 0 (or 1)
AGGG NDUFB2 1 (or 0)
B12 NDUFB3 1
B15 NDUFB4 both Iα and Iβ 1
SGDH NDUFB5 1
B17 NDUFB6 1
B18 NDUFB7 CX9C motif, intermembrane space37 0
ASHI NDUFB8 1
B22 NDUFB9 LYR motif32 0
PDSW NDUFB10 0
ESSS NDUFB11 1
KFYI NDUFC1 none 1
B14.5b NDUFC2 Iβ (low level) 1 or 2
*

The former subunit MLRQ (NDUFA4) is no longer considered a subunit of complex I60.

Subcomplex Iλ, which contains the seven hydrophilic core subunits and eight to nine supernumerary subunits, is considered to represent a significant portion of the hydrophilic domain of complex I. Subcomplex Iα, which contains all the subunits of subcomplex Iλ plus core subunit ND6 and nine to ten additional supernumerary subunits, represents the hydrophilic domain of complex I plus associated membrane subunits. Subcomplex Iβ, which contains ND4 and ND5 and 12 to 13 supernumerary subunits, represents part of the membrane domain3.

TMHs were predicted using TMHMM252, HMMTOP253 and the TOPCONS suite54 (seven methods in total) and are presented as consensus values with less represented values in brackets and single outliers discarded.