Abstract
Subunit IV of yeast cytochrome c oxidase is encoded by a nuclear gene, synthesized in the cytosol as a precursor with a transient amino-terminal extension of 25 amino acids, and imported into the mitochondria. By gene fusion, we have attached the amino-terminal 53 amino acids of the subunit IV precursor to the amino terminus of the mouse cytosolic enzyme dihydrofolate reductase. When the resulting fusion protein was synthesized in a transcription-translation system and then incubated with energized yeast mitochondria, it was imported into the mitochondrial matrix space and processed to a shorter form by the chelator-sensitive matrix protease. No evidence was obtained that the fusion protein became stuck across one of the two mitochondrial membranes. Thus, a non-mitochondrial protein can be transported into the mitochondrial matrix if it is fitted with a mitochondrial targeting sequence.
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