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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2007, p. 6876-6888, Vol. 27, No. 19
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00708-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins in Trypanosoma brucei Function in Mitochondrial Ribosomes{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Mascha Pusnik,1 Ian Small,2 Laurie K. Read,3 Thomas Fabbro,1 and André Schneider1*

Department of Biology/Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland,1 ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth 6009, WA, Australia,2 Department Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, New York 142143

Received 23 April 2007/ Returned for modification 9 May 2007/ Accepted 13 July 2007

The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR), a degenerate 35-amino-acid motif, defines a novel eukaryotic protein family. Plants have 400 to 500 distinct PPR proteins, whereas other eukaryotes generally have fewer than 5. The few PPR proteins that have been studied have roles in organellar gene expression, probably via direct interaction with RNA. Here we show that the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei encodes 28 distinct PPR proteins, an extraordinarily high number for a nonplant organism. A comparative analysis shows that seven out of eight selected PPR proteins are mitochondrially localized and essential for oxidative phosphorylation. Six of these are required for the stabilization of mitochondrial rRNAs and, like ribosomes, are associated with the mitochondrial membranes. Furthermore, one of the PPR proteins copurifies with the large subunit rRNA. Finally, ablation of all of the PPR proteins that were tested induces degradation of the other PPR proteins, indicating that they function in concert. Our results show that a significant number of trypanosomal PPR proteins are individually essential for the maintenance and/or biogenesis of mitochondrial rRNAs.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology/Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. Phone: (41)263008877. Fax: (41)263009741. E-mail: andre.schneider{at}unifr.ch

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 23 July 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2007, p. 6876-6888, Vol. 27, No. 19
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00708-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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