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Localization of riboproteins in a trypanosomatid mitochondrion
Author(s) -
Tittawella Ivor,
Baranov Vladimir
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01345-4
Subject(s) - biology , mitochondrion , crithidia fasciculata , immunoelectron microscopy , cytosol , mitochondrial ribosome , homology (biology) , ribosomal rna , ribosomal protein , ribosome , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , rna , amino acid , genetics , protozoa , antibody , gene , enzyme
There is growing evidence in support of mitochondrial translation in trypanosomes but mitoribosomes have never been characterized or localized in these parasites. On RNA–protein blots we identified several proteins from the trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata which bound the parasite's 12S and 9S mitochondrial ribosomal RNAs. Two of these proteins had significant amino acid sequence homology to riboproteins S8 and S21 across phyla. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that antibodies raised against the two proteins react with matrix components in the C. fasciculata mitochondrion. Our data thus provide, we believe for the first time, evidence for the presence of riboproteins within a trypanosomatid mitochondrion, bound, possibly, to the 12S and 9S RNAs. The proteins were immunologically related to two cytosolic riboproteins which were also of identical size, suggesting the interesting possibility that the same set of riboproteins is shared between the cytosol and the mitochondrion in this parasite.