Publication year
2010Source
Proteomics, 10, 22, (2010), pp. 4012-24ISSN
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01 november 2010
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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CMBI
Journal title
Proteomics
Volume
vol. 10
Issue
iss. 22
Page start
p. 4012
Page end
p. 24
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IGMD 8: Mitochondrial medicine; NCMLS 4: Energy and redox metabolismAbstract
Although the origin of mitochondria from the endosymbiosis of an alpha-proteobacterium is well established, the nature of the host cell, the metabolic complexity of the endosymbiont and the subsequent evolution of the proto-mitochondrion into all its current appearances are still the subject of discovery and sometimes debate. Here we review what has been inferred about the original composition and subsequent evolution of the mitochondrial proteome and essential mitochondrial systems. The evolutionary mosaic that currently constitutes mitochondrial proteomes contains (i) endosymbiotic proteins (15-45%), (ii) proteins without detectable orthologs outside the eukaryotic lineage (40%), and (iii) proteins that are derived from non-proteobacterial Bacteria, Bacteriophages and Archaea (15%, specifically multiple tRNA-modification proteins). Protein complexes are of endosymbiotic origin, but have greatly expanded with novel eukaryotic proteins; in contrast to mitochondrial enzymes that are both of proteobacterial and non-proteobacterial origin. This disparity is consistent with the complexity hypothesis, which argues that proteins that are a part of large, multi-subunit complexes are unlikely to undergo horizontal gene transfer. We observe that they neither change their subcellular compartments in the course of evolution, even when their genes do.
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