PMID- 18076378 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080813 LR - 20220223 IS - 1768-322X (Electronic) IS - 0248-4900 (Linking) VI - 100 IP - 5 DP - 2008 May TI - Metalloprotease-mediated OPA1 processing is modulated by the mitochondrial membrane potential. PG - 315-25 AB - BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Human OPA1 (optic atrophy type 1) is a dynamin-related protein of the mitochondrial IMS (intermembrane space) involved in membrane fusion and remodelling. Similarly to its yeast orthologue Mgm1p that exists in two isoforms generated by the serine protease Pcp1p/Rbd1p, OPA1 exists in various isoforms generated by alternative splicing and processing. In the present paper, we focus on protease processing of OPA1. RESULTS: We find that various mammalian cell types display a similar pattern of OPA1 isoforms [two L-OPA1 (long isoforms of OPA1) and three S-OPA1 (short isoforms of OPA1)] and that loss of the inner membrane potential, but not inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation or glycolysis, induces rapid and complete processing of L-OPA1 to S-OPA1. In isolated mitochondria, OPA1 processing was inhibited by heavy-metal chelators, pointing to processing by a mitochondrial metalloprotease. The pattern of OPA1 isoforms and its processing kinetics were normal in mitochondria devoid of the serine protease PARL (presenilins-associated rhomboid-like protein) - the human orthologue of Pcp1/Rbd1 - and in cells from patients carrying homozygous mutations in SPG7 (spastic paraplegia type 7), a gene encoding the matrix-oriented metalloprotease paraplegin. In contrast, OPA1 processing kinetics were delayed upon knock-down of YME1L (human yme1-like protein), an IMS-oriented metalloprotease. OPA1 processing was also stimulated during apoptosis, but inhibition of this processing did not affect apoptotic release of OPA1 and cytochrome c. Finally, we show that all OPA1 isoforms interact with Mfn1 (mitofusin 1) and Mfn2 and that these interactions are not affected by dissipation of DeltaPsim (inner mitochondrial membrane potential) or OPA1 processing. CONCLUSIONS: Metalloprotease-mediated processing of OPA1 is modulated by the inner membrane potential and is likely to be mediated by the YME1L protease. FAU - Guillery, Olwenn AU - Guillery O AD - Inserm U582, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. FAU - Malka, Florence AU - Malka F FAU - Landes, Thomas AU - Landes T FAU - Guillou, Emmanuelle AU - Guillou E FAU - Blackstone, Craig AU - Blackstone C FAU - Lombes, Anne AU - Lombes A FAU - Belenguer, Pascale AU - Belenguer P FAU - Arnoult, Damien AU - Arnoult D FAU - Rojo, Manuel AU - Rojo M LA - eng SI - GENBANK/NM015560 GR - Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Biol Cell JT - Biology of the cell JID - 8108529 RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (Mitochondrial Proteins) RN - 0 (Protein Isoforms) RN - EC 3.4.- (Metalloproteases) RN - EC 3.4.24.- (Metalloendopeptidases) RN - EC 3.4.24.- (YME1L1 protein, human) RN - EC 3.6.1.- (GTP Phosphohydrolases) RN - EC 3.6.1.- (MFN2 protein, human) RN - EC 3.6.1.- (OPA1 protein, human) RN - EC 3.6.4.- (ATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular Activities) RN - EC 3.6.5.- (Mfn1 protein, human) SB - IM MH - ATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular Activities MH - GTP Phosphohydrolases/*metabolism MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Membrane Potential, Mitochondrial/*physiology MH - Membrane Proteins/metabolism MH - Membrane Transport Proteins/metabolism MH - Metalloendopeptidases/*metabolism MH - Metalloproteases/*metabolism MH - Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins MH - Mitochondrial Membranes/*enzymology MH - Mitochondrial Proteins/metabolism MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Protein Isoforms/metabolism MH - Protein Processing, Post-Translational MH - RNA Interference/physiology MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction EDAT- 2007/12/14 09:00 MHDA- 2008/08/14 09:00 CRDT- 2007/12/14 09:00 PHST- 2007/12/14 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/08/14 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/12/14 09:00 [entrez] AID - BC20070110 [pii] AID - 10.1042/BC20070110 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biol Cell. 2008 May;100(5):315-25. doi: 10.1042/BC20070110.