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Alicia López-López1,2, Olivier Keech2, Nicolas Rouhier1.
Abstract
In plants, the mitochondrial complex I is the protein complex encompassing the largest number of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters. The whole, membrane-embedded, holo-complex is assembled stepwise from assembly intermediates. The Q and N modules are combined to form a peripheral arm in the matrix, whereas the so-called membrane arm is formed after merging a carbonic anhydrase (CA) module with so-called Pp (proximal) and the Pd (distal) domains. A ferredoxin bridge connects both arms. The eight Fe-S clusters present in the peripheral arm for electron transfer reactions are synthesized via a dedicated protein machinery referred to as the iron-sulfur cluster (ISC) machinery. The de novo assembly occurs on ISCU scaffold proteins from iron, sulfur and electron delivery proteins. In a second step, the preformed Fe-S clusters are transferred, eventually converted and inserted in recipient apo-proteins. Diverse molecular actors, including a chaperone-cochaperone system, assembly factors among which proteins with LYR motifs, and Fe-S cluster carrier/transfer proteins, have been identified as contributors to the second step. This mini-review highlights the recent progresses in our understanding of how specificity is achieved during the delivery of preformed Fe-S clusters to complex I subunits.Entities:
Keywords: assembly factors; complex I; iron-sulfur cluster; maturation factors; mitochondria; plants
Year: 2022 PMID: 35677241 PMCID: PMC9168917 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.916948
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Plant Sci ISSN: 1664-462X Impact factor: 6.627
FIGURE 1Complex I structure and assembly in plants. (A) Schematic representation of complex I structure based on the 3D structure of Brassica oleracea complex I (Soufari et al., 2020), including the ferredoxin bridge described in Klusch et al. (2021). Arabidopsis nomenclature is used for the 46 subunits shown here. The CA domain, ferredoxin bridge, modules of the peripheral arm (N and Q modules) and of the membrane arm (Pp and Pd modules) have been represented in different colors. The electron flow from FMN to coenzyme Q via the 7 Fe-S clusters present in the different subunits of the peripheral arm is shown. (B) Model of the assembly steps of complex I. The figure is adapted from Ligas et al. (2019). Emphasis is made on Fe-S cluster-containing subunits present in the N and Q modules of the peripheral arm. It is thought that they are assembled prior to their insertion in larger subassemblies. Both [2Fe-2S] clusters (orange) and [4Fe-4S] clusters (red) are synthesized via the mitochondrial ISC machinery but HSCB and ISCU1/3 scaffold proteins may be sufficient for [2Fe-2S] clusters whereas additional maturation factors such as ISCA1/2, IBA57.1, BOLA4, or INDH and assembly factor (CIAF1) are required at least for some [4Fe-4S] clusters. The N and Q modules, including the Fe-S containing subunits, assemble in parallel following a two-step process forming complexes of 170 and 120 kDa, respectively, and which associate with a few additional subunits in a larger complex of 350 kDa, forming the peripheral arm. In an independent manner, the CA domain (85 kDa) is integrated in a 200 kDa intermediate containing early inserted subunits of the membrane arm. Two further steps are needed to obtain the Pp module of 450 kDa. The L-galactonolactone dehydrogenase (GLDH) assembly factor is present at these steps. The Pp module is then assembled with the 350 kDa to form a 800 kDa complex to which the Pd module is associated to form the mature complex I of 1 MDa. The recently identified ferredoxin bridge is not represented here, but it is likely assembled lately.
FIGURE 2LYRM proteins associated with complex I in plants. (A) Structure-based sequence alignment. The alignment was generated with mTM-align (Dong et al., 2018) and manually adjusted to focus on the LYRM common core regions (amino acids are numbered on both sides). We used the structures of the B14 and B22 subunits present in the Brassica oleracea complex I cryo-EM structure (Soufari et al., 2020) and structural models of Arabidopsis ISD11 and CIAF1 generated by alphafold (Jumper et al., 2021). Amino acids in magenta correspond to common core regions. The only two conserved residues are highlighted in blue; the LYR motif in gray. Noteworthy, in the B14 protein the FFR motif is degenerated, and the conserved Arginine (R) is not even present in some algal sequences. (B) 3D structure superimposition of the core helices. The superimposed structure file in common core regions generated by mTM-align was visualized with Pymol. The ISD11, B14, CIAF1, and B22 proteins are represented in brown, yellow, gray and violet, respectively. Dashed lines represent variable spacing regions. The LYR motif in ISD11, B14, CIAF1 is colored in red, whereas for the B22 protein it is in green and shifted by one helix turn.