PMID- 20398622 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110110 LR - 20161126 IS - 0006-3002 (Print) IS - 0006-3002 (Linking) VI - 1797 IP - 6-7 DP - 2010 Jun-Jul TI - Assembly factors and ATP-dependent proteases in cytochrome c oxidase biogenesis. PG - 1149-58 LID - 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.04.006 [doi] AB - Eukaryotic cytochrome c oxidase (CcO), the terminal enzyme of the energy-transducing mitochondrial electron transport chain is a hetero-oligomeric, heme-copper oxidase complex composed of both mitochondrially and nuclear-encoded subunits. It is embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane where it couples the transfer of electrons from reduced cytochrome c to molecular oxygen with vectorial proton translocation across the membrane. The biogenesis of CcO is a complicated sequential process that requires numerous specific accessory proteins, so-called assembly factors, which include translational activators, translocases, molecular chaperones, copper metallochaperones and heme a biosynthetic enzymes. Besides these CcO-specific protein factors, the correct biogenesis of CcO requires an even greater number of proteins with much broader substrate specificities. Indeed, growing evidence indicates that mitochondrial ATP-dependent proteases might play an important role in CcO biogenesis. Out of the four identified energy-dependent mitochondrial proteases, three were shown to be directly involved in proteolysis of CcO subunits. In addition to their well-established protein-quality control function these oligomeric proteolytic complexes with chaperone-like activities may function as molecular chaperones promoting productive folding and assembly of subunit proteins. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of the functional involvement of eukaryotic CcO-specific assembly factors and highlight the possible significance for CcO biogenesis of mitochondrial ATP-dependent proteases. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Stiburek, Lukas AU - Stiburek L AD - Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Prague, Czech Republic. Lukas.Stiburek@lf1.cuni.cz FAU - Zeman, Jiri AU - Zeman J LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20100414 PL - Netherlands TA - Biochim Biophys Acta JT - Biochimica et biophysica acta JID - 0217513 RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) RN - 0 (Protein Subunits) RN - EC 1.9.3.1 (Electron Transport Complex IV) RN - EC 3.4.21.- (ATP-Dependent Proteases) SB - IM MH - ATP-Dependent Proteases/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - Electron Transport Complex IV/*biosynthesis/chemistry MH - Humans MH - Mitochondria/metabolism MH - Models, Biological MH - Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism MH - Protein Subunits MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism EDAT- 2010/04/20 06:00 MHDA- 2011/01/11 06:00 CRDT- 2010/04/20 06:00 PHST- 2009/11/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/03/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/04/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/04/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/04/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/01/11 06:00 [medline] AID - S0005-2728(10)00139-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.04.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochim Biophys Acta. 2010 Jun-Jul;1797(6-7):1149-58. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.04.006. Epub 2010 Apr 14.