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. 2021 Aug 16;4:974. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02498-z

Fig. 7. LONP1 specifically degrades some unprocessed mitochondrial proteins.

Fig. 7

a Analysis of proteins from HeLa cells treated with siRNAs. The cells were used for experiments 3 d after the second transfection, Left panel, immunoblot analysis of total proteins from cells was carried out as described in the legend to Fig. 1a. Right panel, immunoblot analysis of soluble (S) and insoluble (I) proteins in the knockdown cells was carried out as described in the legend to Supplementary Fig. S2. b Model of LONP1 activity toward imported proteins. Left panel, LONP1 associates with incoming proteins. Right panel, LONP1 assists folding and/or assembly of the imported proteins using its chaperone-like activity. Unprocessed imported proteins are degraded by LONP1. Imported proteins aggregate in the mitochondrial matrix of LONP1 knockdown cells or LONP1 dominant negative cells.