Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in mitochondria

E Kummer, N Ban - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondria are cellular organelles responsible for generation of chemical energy in the
process called oxidative phosphorylation. They originate from a bacterial ancestor and …

Mitochondrial transcription and translation: overview

AR D'Souza, M Minczuk - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Mitochondria are the major source of ATP in the cell. Five multi-subunit complexes in the
inner membrane of the organelle are involved in the oxidative phosphorylation required for …

Organization and regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis

M Ott, A Amunts, A Brown - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are essential organelles of endosymbiotic origin that are responsible for
oxidative phosphorylation within eukaryotic cells. Independent evolution between species …

Mitochondrial OXPHOS biogenesis: co-regulation of protein synthesis, import, and assembly pathways

JX Tang, K Thompson, RW Taylor… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The assembly of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) complexes is an
intricate process, which—given their dual-genetic control—requires tight co-regulation of two …

Mechanism of protein biosynthesis in mammalian mitochondria

BE Christian, LL Spremulli - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2012 - Elsevier
Protein synthesis in mammalian mitochondria produces 13 proteins that are essential
subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation complexes. This review provides a detailed outline …

Mitochondrial translation and beyond: processes implicated in combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiencies

P Smits, J Smeitink… - BioMed Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial disorders are a heterogeneous group of often multisystemic and early fatal
diseases, which are amongst the most common inherited human diseases. These disorders …

The process of mammalian mitochondrial protein synthesis

N Mai, ZMA Chrzanowska-Lightowlers… - Cell and tissue …, 2017 - Springer
Oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is the mechanism whereby ATP, the major energy
source for the cell, is produced by harnessing cellular respiration in the mitochondrion. This …

The diseased mitoribosome

A Ferrari, S Del'Olio, A Barrientos - FEBS letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondria control life and death in eukaryotic cells. Harboring a unique circular genome,
a by‐product of an ancient endosymbiotic event, mitochondria maintains a specialized and …

Structural basis of translation termination, rescue, and recycling in mammalian mitochondria

E Kummer, KN Schubert, T Schoenhut, A Scaiola… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The mitochondrial translation system originates from a bacterial ancestor but has
substantially diverged in the course of evolution. Here, we use single-particle cryo-electron …

Functions and regulation of translation elongation factors

B Xu, L Liu, G Song - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Translation elongation is a key step of protein synthesis, during which the nascent
polypeptide chain extends by one amino acid residue during one elongation cycle. More …